Govt defines backward areas

Kathmandu, September 18

The government decided to define backward areas and minority communities for provincial assemblies and issue notification of the same in the Nepal Gazette.

According to Minister of Land Reform and Management Gopal Dahit, the government decided to list local levels with lower than 0.45 per cent human development index value  as backward areas. Similarly, the government also decided to categorise more than 45 ethnic groups with lower than 0.26 per cent of the country’s population as minority groups. Dahit said the parties will have to take these clusters into account while filing nomination for provincial elections.

The government also decided to form a high level committee to organise the eighth world conference of non-resident Nepalis in Kathmandu on October 14 and 15, said Minister of Information and Communications Mohan Bahadur Basnet after the Cabinet meeting.  The government delegated power to Durga Bhandari to sign a political document relating to the reforms of the UN. The Cabinet also decided to authorise Deputy Prime Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara to sign a Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty.