Jammu: Minister for Social Welfare, Ms. Sakina Itoo today informed the House that the Government has recently notified 45 villages as backward areas on the recommendations of Jammu and Kashmir Backward Classes Commission. Replying to a question by Mr. Javaid Mustafa Mir, the Minister said that no such recommendations in respect of villages of Chadoora Constituency have been received from the Commission yet, as various criteria/parameters are adopted by the Commission for declaring any area as backward. The Minister added that as and when any recommendation from the Commission is received appropriate action will be taken. The Minister said that the exercise to de-notify the villages after the specified period of 10 years as envisaged under the Act shall be undertaken in consultation with the Commission at an appropriate time depending upon the improvement of indicators in already notified backward areas.
