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Context: The Union Home Minister Amit Shah to launch the 'Vibrant Villages Programme' in Arunachal Pradesh.

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• The Union Home Minister to inaugurate the 'Vibrant Villages Initiative' in Kibithoo, a village on India's border with China.
• The Vibrant Villages Programme is a centrally sponsored scheme that has identified 2,967 villages in 46 blocks of 19 districts along the northern border in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh, as well as the Union Territory of Ladakh, for comprehensive development.

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• According to a Home Ministry statement, the Government of India has approved the initiative, with Central components totalling Rs 4,800 crore, including Rs 2,500 crore specifically for road connectivity, during the fiscal years 2022-23 to 2025-26.

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Centrally Sponsored Scheme

• Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) are programmes that are administered by state governments but are mostly funded by the Central Government with a fixed contribution from the state governments.
  • Such initiatives include the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, and others.
• There are several models for financing centrally sponsored programmes, however, the Centre provides the majority of the financing. In most situations, the Union government and the states share the expenses of these schemes in a 60:40 ratio. The financing ratio may be 80:20 in specific circumstances.
  • In the case of the northeastern states, the Union government provides 90% of the funding.
• The Union government spends about 12% of its yearly budget on centrally sponsored schemes 

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