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Some districts from the states Telangana and AP are at backward stage. Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with the respective incharge officials of those districts.
From Telangana state, the three backward are Bhupalapally, Asifabad and Khammam and those from AP are Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam and Kadapa.
Out of 115 backward districts, three districts each from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh figured in the list are notified by the Centre as lagging in education, health, nutrition, basis infrastructure like rural road connectivity, rural household electrification, water and individual toilets.
Prime Minister Modi interacts as a part of the conference to launch his ambitious programme,’Transformation of Aspirational Districts’ which is aimed to bring backward districts to mainstream.
The Telangana state government had requested the Centre to include three more districts – Kothagudem, Gadwal and Mahabubabad to the list but was turned down.
The initiative was launched in line with Mr Modi’s vision of a new India by 2022 under which the Centre has embarked upon a major policy for rapid transformation of 115 backward districts.
Cabinet secretary P.K. Sinha will chair the meeting with NITI Aayog chief executive officer Amitabh Kant. Secretaries of key ministries would also attend this session. The home secretary will brief the Prabhari Officers.