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In late July 2026 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has continued to foreground the Viksit Bharat outreach. After outreach in late July 2026. Following the 22 July high‑level meeting and the 25 July video‑conference with participants of the Viksit Vibrant Village programme, on the 26 July he held another video‑conference with more than over 400 youths from the same border‑area villages. border villages was again highlighted in recent coverage. The session, aired as the 136th episode of his “Mann Ki Baat” radio programme, let Baat”, allowed the Prime Minister to hear ground‑level experiences from Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, where the programme had been rolled out ran in two phases (4‑30 June) across 74 villages. Participants had been Young volunteers, selected through a nationwide online quiz that attracted over more than three lakh applicants and applicants, had taken part in cleanliness drives, awareness campaigns on government schemes, cultural exchanges, tree‑planting, mini‑Panchayat simulations and visits to strategically important institutions. Modi urged the young volunteers to visit the border villages in person, recalled his 2016 Diwali visit to Chango village in Himachal Pradesh, village, praised the spirit of Generation Z, highlighted women’s empowerment through and solo travel, travel for Generation Z, and reiterated that these frontier reinforced the vision of border settlements are as the nation’s “first villages” and that should become active contributors to a developed India. He also linked the interaction initiative to broader initiatives schemes such as the PM‑KUSUM solar‑farm scheme solar farms and drug‑abuse prevention, confirming that the programme operates its operation under the MY Bharat scheme. programme.