Border Area Development Programme (BADP)

The BADP was started in the year 1986-87 for balanced development of border areas of States bordering Pakistan namely, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Gujarat and Rajasthan and subsequently it was extended to all the land borders.

• The main objective of the BADP is to meet the special developmental needs and well-being of the people living in remote and inaccessible areas situated near the international border and to saturate the border areas with the entire essential infrastructure through convergence of Central/ State/ BADP/ Local schemes and participatory approach.
• In July 2015, Department of Border Management of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued Modified Border Area Development Programme (BADP) guidelines in consultation with concerned Ministries/Departments of Government of India. The modified guidelines are as follows:
  • Coverage of BADP has been extended to cover all the villages which are located within the 0-10 Km of the International Border.
  • The list of schemes permissible under BADP have been expanded to include schemes/activities relating to Swachta Abhiyan, Skill Development programmes, Promotion of Rural Tourism/ Border Tourism, Protection of heritage sites, Construction of helipads in remote and inaccessible hilly areas, Organic farming, etc.
  • Setting up an independent National Quality Monitors with the ambit for Third Party Inspection and Quality Control Mechanism under MHA of the BADP schemes.
  • Allow State Governments to monitor the BADP schemes with help from existing District Level Monitoring/ vigilance Committees where local Members of Parliament and MLAs are represented.
• Earlier BADP was a 100% centrally sponsored gap filling programme. However from 2015-16, it has been classified as a Core Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) and is now part of the National Development Agenda.

The new funding pattern of BADP with respect of 8 North Eastern States & 3 Himalayan States is in the ratio 90:10 (Centre Share : State Share) and in respect of 6 other States (viz. Bihar, Gujarat, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal) is in the ratio 60:40.