madurai union defence minister nirmala sitharaman participated in the review meeting held as part of vision 2022 programme held in ramanathapuram she said that all steps would be taken to bring the district out of its backward statusramanathapuram was identified as an aspirational district and would be developed on parameters to improve sanitation meeting drinking water requirements and developing infrastructure facilities in the district which were discussed at the meetingschemes for farmers including harvesting techniques which would benefit them and reducing child and maternal mortality were also reviewed speaking at the meeting the minister urged officials to ensure that all the welfare schemes implemented by the central government reached the people all departments should work for the development of the district as a whole she addedthe central government has identified 115 districts throughout the country as backward based on the niti ayog formula parameters such as poverty education and health were taken into consideration during evaluation in tamil nadu both virudhunagar and ramanathapuram have been identified as most backwards gopalakrishnan joint secretary ministry of electronics and information technology is the central nodal officer for the programme in ramanathapuram and p amutha commissioner food safety is the state nodal officer ramanathapuram district collector s natarajan and minister r manikandan among others were present