Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 26: The inhabitants of Nadimarg village in Kulgam district of South Kashmir have demanded declaration of the village as Rural Backward Area (RBA).
In an appeal to Governor, chairman, Vitasta Samaj Sewa and a resident of the village Chand Ji Khar and social activist, Bushan Lal of Nadimarg have demanded that the village be also classified as Rural Backward Area because the same is a secluded village and is far from district headquarter.
Both Khar and Nadimarg said that the village is a fit case for classification as RBA village as 25 people of the village were gunned down by terrorists there in 2003 and forced to leave the village despite the fact that they stayed there after the mass exodus of minority Pandits in 1989-90.
After the massacre in 2003, the entire village which was inhabited by minority Pandits became empty as they were left with no option but to leave the village. It was the result of the village being a secluded and a remote area that the forces from other district headquarters too could not reach there well in time to chase the terrorists who attacked the people there.
Keeping this in view the residents of the area said that Nadimarg is the fittest case for being declared as RBA so that the people of the village leading an exiled life now for last 16 years can get some benefits under the reserved category.
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