GUWAHATI: The BJP-led Assam cupboard has accepted 57 of the 67 suggestions by an MHA-constituted fee on implementation of constitutional, authorized, and administrative safeguards for “Assamese individuals”, as envisaged in Clause 6 of the tripartite 1985 Assam Accord.
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma termed the Justice (retd) Biplab Sarma Fee’s report, submitted in Feb 2020, “one of the crucial important efforts since Independence to guard the rights of the individuals of Assam”.
Implementation of Clause 6, which commits to “defend, protect and promote the cultural, social, linguistic identification and heritage of the Assamese individuals”, stays a hot-button subject even 39 years after the accord was signed.
The fee’s report defines “Assamese individuals” as any bona fide Indian citizen, together with the indigenous tribal communities, residing in Assam on or earlier than Jan 1, 1951, and their descendants.
One of many key suggestions is to limit land rights, particularly stopping switch of land by any means to anybody who shouldn’t be an Assamese. “Over the a long time, the demographic change that’s discernible in 11 districts of the state of Assam deepens the nervousness and concern of the indigenous communities of being rendered right into a minority of their residence state,” the report states.
The fee additionally recommends reservation of 80% of seats for the “Assamese individuals” within the meeting and native our bodies, saying that “such reservations needs to be appropriately effected within the constituencies of the districts which have undergone demographic adjustments”.
Sarma mentioned the ten suggestions on maintain could be taken up with the Centre in a phased method. The state cupboard, which met in Lakhimpur late Wednesday, has already ready a roadmap for the implementation of the opposite 57 suggestions by April 15 subsequent yr, he mentioned.
These can be made public after consultations with Aasu, the coed organisation whose historic mass motion towards unlawful immigration from Bangladesh led to the signing of the 1985 settlement, and different stakeholders throughout the subsequent few days. AGP, an ally of BJP, was born out of the accord.
The Justice Sarma fee’s report states that except the political rights of the Assamese individuals are safeguarded, no variety of protecting measures can keep their cultural, social, linguistic identification and heritage.
For cover of indigenous languages, the fee recommends that Assamese stay the official language of Assam, with provisions to be used of native languages within the Barak Valley, hill districts, and the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District.
The cupboard’s endorsement of nearly all of its suggestions comes within the wake of renewed calls for by some organisations, particularly in higher Assam, for the safety of the rights of indigenous individuals.
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma termed the Justice (retd) Biplab Sarma Fee’s report, submitted in Feb 2020, “one of the crucial important efforts since Independence to guard the rights of the individuals of Assam”.
Implementation of Clause 6, which commits to “defend, protect and promote the cultural, social, linguistic identification and heritage of the Assamese individuals”, stays a hot-button subject even 39 years after the accord was signed.
The fee’s report defines “Assamese individuals” as any bona fide Indian citizen, together with the indigenous tribal communities, residing in Assam on or earlier than Jan 1, 1951, and their descendants.
One of many key suggestions is to limit land rights, particularly stopping switch of land by any means to anybody who shouldn’t be an Assamese. “Over the a long time, the demographic change that’s discernible in 11 districts of the state of Assam deepens the nervousness and concern of the indigenous communities of being rendered right into a minority of their residence state,” the report states.
The fee additionally recommends reservation of 80% of seats for the “Assamese individuals” within the meeting and native our bodies, saying that “such reservations needs to be appropriately effected within the constituencies of the districts which have undergone demographic adjustments”.
Sarma mentioned the ten suggestions on maintain could be taken up with the Centre in a phased method. The state cupboard, which met in Lakhimpur late Wednesday, has already ready a roadmap for the implementation of the opposite 57 suggestions by April 15 subsequent yr, he mentioned.
These can be made public after consultations with Aasu, the coed organisation whose historic mass motion towards unlawful immigration from Bangladesh led to the signing of the 1985 settlement, and different stakeholders throughout the subsequent few days. AGP, an ally of BJP, was born out of the accord.
The Justice Sarma fee’s report states that except the political rights of the Assamese individuals are safeguarded, no variety of protecting measures can keep their cultural, social, linguistic identification and heritage.
For cover of indigenous languages, the fee recommends that Assamese stay the official language of Assam, with provisions to be used of native languages within the Barak Valley, hill districts, and the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District.
The cupboard’s endorsement of nearly all of its suggestions comes within the wake of renewed calls for by some organisations, particularly in higher Assam, for the safety of the rights of indigenous individuals.
