LIST OF BACKWARD DISTRICTS - PM Awards

1 LIST OF BACKWARD DISTRICTS State Name DISTRICTS Kadapa Andhra Pradesh Visakhapatnam Vizianagaram Arunachal Pradesh Namsai Baksa Barpeta Darrang assam Dhubri Goalpara Hailakandi Udalgudi Araria Aurangabad Banka Begusarai Gaya Jamui Bihar Katihar Khagaria Muzaffarpur Nawada Purnea Sheikhpura Sitamarhi Baster Bijapur Kondagaon Korba Chattisgarh Mahasamund Naravanpur Norh Bastar-Kanker Rajnandgaon South Bastar-Dantewada Sukma Gujarat Morbi Narmada Haryana Mewat Himachal Pradesh Chamba Jammu And Kashmir Baramula Kupwara Bokaro Chatra Jharkhand Dumka East Singhbhum Garhwa Giridih Godda Gumla Hazaribag khunti Latehar Lohardaga Pakaur Palamu Ramgarh Ranchi Sahibganj

2 Simdega West Singhbhum Karnataka Gadag Kalaburagi ( Gulbarga) Kerala Wayanad Barwani Chhatarpur Damoh Madhya Pradesh East Nimar Guna Rajgarh Singrauli Vidisha Gadchiroli Maharashtra Jalgaon Nanded Nandurbar Manipur Chandel Meghalaya Ri Bhoi Mizoram Mamit Nagaland Kiphrie Balangir Dhenkanal Gajapati Orissa Kalahandi Kandhamal Koraput Malkangiri Rayagada Punjab Ferozepur Moga Barmer Dhaulpur Rajasthan

3 Jaisalmer Karauli Sirohi Sikkim East Sikkim Tamilnadu Ramanathapuram Virudhunagar Adilabad Telangana Khammam Warangal Rural Tripura Dhalai Bahraich Balrampur Chandauli Uttar Pradesh Chitrakoot Fatehpur Shravasti Siddharthnagar Sonbhadra Uttarakhand Haridwar Udham Singh Nagar Birbhum Dakshin Dinajpur West Bengal Malda Murshidabad Nadia Note: DISTRICTS identified as BACKWARD by NITI Aayog.

4 This list is subject to change in case of any updation by the Aayog.