The 'Vibrant Village' scheme, which found mention in Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget speech in Parliament, aims to develop the villages in 46 border blocks across 19 districts, 4 states and one Union Territory - Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Ladakh (UT) - on the northern border.
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on Monday placed a signboard at the threshold of border village Mana, which read 'First Indian Village'
Mana, a village located at the Indo-China border in Uttarakhand's Chamoli, earlier known as the last Indian village, will now be known as the 'first Indian village'.
The development comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October last year, endorsed Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami's remark that Mana was the first village of the country and every border village should be the first village.
"Now even for me, every village on the border is the first village in the country," PM Modi had said.