Srinagar, June 10: Jammu and Kashmir government would reactivate the state Backward Classes Commission (BCC) so that the areas qualifying to be declared as socially and educationally backward were recommended at the earliest. This will ensure proper benefit of the people of such areas, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed told the legislative council on Tuesday.
He said BCC was constituted in 1988 with a view to identify and recommend areas which it deemed as socially and educationally backward. Earlier, minister of state for Parliamentary Affairs A R Veeri said barring Chrar-e-Sharief town and four villages, the entire constituency of Chrar-e-Sharief has been declared a backward area.

He said government can declare any area as backward only when the BCC recommended it.
The Chief Minister assured that Rs 87.3 lakh Vir Bhoomi park at Samba would be completed within the stipulated time. He said coalition government would take necessary steps to honour the war heros of the state.
Sayeed said he will direct the deputy development commissioner Jammu to visit Sujwan and Harijan Basti to address the drinking water problems there.
Bureau Report