GUWAHATI: Among the 57 recommendations of the MHA-set panel for providing safeguards to indigenous people of the state which the state govt will implement, a key recommendation is identification of revenue circles where only “Assamese people” can own and possess land and transfer of such land in these areas are limited to them alone.
The urban areas under the Assam Municipal Act will, however, be excluded without affecting the interest of the Assamese people from these areas so that land in cities and towns can be owned by any citizen of India.
The Assam cabinet on Wednesday had approved 57 of 67 recommendations from the Justice (retd) Biplab Sarma Commission set up by the MHA to provide constitutional, legal, and administrative protection to Assamese people for implementation of Clause 6 of Assam Accord of 1985, which was signed by the central and state governments following six years of agitation against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
The state govt will also implement the committee’s recommendation to devise schemes like small tea garden to motivate young entrepreneurs to take up agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture, animal husbandry etc “which would go a long way in restraining the “Assamese people” from transferring their land to others for immediate lure of money which in the long run creates a landless community devoid of any means of livelihood.”
Another recommendation to be implemented by the state govt is adopting a time-bound three-year programme in a mission mode to allot patta to the “Assamese people who are in occupation of land for decades but do not possess any land documents. Similarly, the “Assamese people”, who are in occupation of government land and are eligible for settlement of land as per Land Policy, 2019, will be given pattas in a time-bound manner.
The state will implement the 57 recommendations by April 15 next year and the remaining 10 are to be dealt with at the level of Government of India.
The urban areas under the Assam Municipal Act will, however, be excluded without affecting the interest of the Assamese people from these areas so that land in cities and towns can be owned by any citizen of India.
The Assam cabinet on Wednesday had approved 57 of 67 recommendations from the Justice (retd) Biplab Sarma Commission set up by the MHA to provide constitutional, legal, and administrative protection to Assamese people for implementation of Clause 6 of Assam Accord of 1985, which was signed by the central and state governments following six years of agitation against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
The state govt will also implement the committee’s recommendation to devise schemes like small tea garden to motivate young entrepreneurs to take up agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture, animal husbandry etc “which would go a long way in restraining the “Assamese people” from transferring their land to others for immediate lure of money which in the long run creates a landless community devoid of any means of livelihood.”
Another recommendation to be implemented by the state govt is adopting a time-bound three-year programme in a mission mode to allot patta to the “Assamese people who are in occupation of land for decades but do not possess any land documents. Similarly, the “Assamese people”, who are in occupation of government land and are eligible for settlement of land as per Land Policy, 2019, will be given pattas in a time-bound manner.
The state will implement the 57 recommendations by April 15 next year and the remaining 10 are to be dealt with at the level of Government of India.
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