Border Area Development Programme has been started by the Government of India with the twin objectives of balanced development of sensitive border areas through adequate provision of infrastructure facilities and promotion of sense of security amongst the local population.
Problems
- The Border districts have suffered a lot and lagged behind due to their proximity to the border, 3 wars with Pakistan and long spell of cross border terrorism.
- Farmers living in Border areas face acute hardships as they can not cultivate tall crops.The problems are compounded by inadequate accessing facilities to the farmers after the erection of fencing alongwith International border.
- Rivers Ravi and Satluj and number of choes and distributories are passing through the border Districts of Gurdaspur and Ferozepur respectively causing damage to the crops particularly during the rainy season.
- Border areas lack basic amenities of Education, Health, Sanitation, Transportation, Roads etc.The lack of environment for development of Industries and Marketing infrastructure have further accentuated the problems of the local population.