Guwahati: A meeting with a delegation of All Assam Students Union, chaired by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma (Aasu) on Tuesday decided to prepare a roadmap for the implementation of important clauses of the 1985 Assam Accord within the next three months.
AASU President Dipanka Kumar Nath told reporters after the meeting that the roadmap would be prepared by a committee consisting of five representatives of AASU and three ministers of the Assam government.
He informed that the implementation and holistic development aspects of Clauses 6 to 10 of the Assam Accord would be included in the roadmap. The last Chief Minister level talks on the Assam Accord were held under the chairmanship of the then Chief Minister. Tarun Gogoi On May 2, 2005, AASU also raised objections to the Citizenship Amendment Act during Tuesday’s meeting.
“So that the outcome of the Assam Accord is negotiated, a joint committee will be formed. The roadmap will be on expediting the process of implementation of the unfinished clauses of the agreement. The need will be discussed with the Union Home Ministry, which is the nodal ministry for the implementation of the Assam Accord,” Nath said.
A Union Home Ministry constituted high powered Section 6 Committee on the Assam Accord, headed by a retired judge Guwahati High Court, Biplab Kumar Sharmahad submitted its report to former chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and his cabinet colleagues on February 25 last year. Clause 6 seeks provisions to provide for constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese people. The report, which was to be sent to the Centre, however, could not yet put into effect the effective implementation of the all-important clause.
After 16 years, a 41-member Central Committee delegation participated in the Chief Minister-level talks on the Assam Accord. Apart from the issue of implementation of the agreement, the issues discussed in the meeting included the concerns of the mega dam and the demand for preservation of the memories of cultural icon Bhupen Hazarika and beautification of his cremation ground in Guwahati.
Nath said the chief minister has assured him that meaningful steps would be taken to put up chairs in the name of Hazarika in Guwahati. Dibrugarh And Tezpur University. “The government has agreed to our demand to include the works of Bhupen Hazarika in the school curriculum. The chief minister also assured us that he would take up our demand to name the Guwahati railway station and terminus after Bhupen Hazarika in front of the centre,” Nath said.
AASU Chief Advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya lauded Chief Minister Sarma’s initiative to voluntarily invite him for talks on the Assam Accord. “Constitutional security, economic security, protection of tribal belts, blocks and government land, NRC update, sealing of Indo-Bangladesh border, permanent solution to floods and erosion and rehabilitation of the families of Assam agitation victims and martyrs will be on the agenda of the committee. Bhattacharya said.
He hoped that the committee would take steps to settle the demands of AASU forever. He said that the cumulative impact study of the mega dams under construction in the upper reaches of Brahmaputra should be done before a major catastrophe in the Northeast.
AASU President Dipanka Kumar Nath told reporters after the meeting that the roadmap would be prepared by a committee consisting of five representatives of AASU and three ministers of the Assam government.
He informed that the implementation and holistic development aspects of Clauses 6 to 10 of the Assam Accord would be included in the roadmap. The last Chief Minister level talks on the Assam Accord were held under the chairmanship of the then Chief Minister. Tarun Gogoi On May 2, 2005, AASU also raised objections to the Citizenship Amendment Act during Tuesday’s meeting.
“So that the outcome of the Assam Accord is negotiated, a joint committee will be formed. The roadmap will be on expediting the process of implementation of the unfinished clauses of the agreement. The need will be discussed with the Union Home Ministry, which is the nodal ministry for the implementation of the Assam Accord,” Nath said.
A Union Home Ministry constituted high powered Section 6 Committee on the Assam Accord, headed by a retired judge Guwahati High Court, Biplab Kumar Sharmahad submitted its report to former chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and his cabinet colleagues on February 25 last year. Clause 6 seeks provisions to provide for constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese people. The report, which was to be sent to the Centre, however, could not yet put into effect the effective implementation of the all-important clause.
After 16 years, a 41-member Central Committee delegation participated in the Chief Minister-level talks on the Assam Accord. Apart from the issue of implementation of the agreement, the issues discussed in the meeting included the concerns of the mega dam and the demand for preservation of the memories of cultural icon Bhupen Hazarika and beautification of his cremation ground in Guwahati.
Nath said the chief minister has assured him that meaningful steps would be taken to put up chairs in the name of Hazarika in Guwahati. Dibrugarh And Tezpur University. “The government has agreed to our demand to include the works of Bhupen Hazarika in the school curriculum. The chief minister also assured us that he would take up our demand to name the Guwahati railway station and terminus after Bhupen Hazarika in front of the centre,” Nath said.
AASU Chief Advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya lauded Chief Minister Sarma’s initiative to voluntarily invite him for talks on the Assam Accord. “Constitutional security, economic security, protection of tribal belts, blocks and government land, NRC update, sealing of Indo-Bangladesh border, permanent solution to floods and erosion and rehabilitation of the families of Assam agitation victims and martyrs will be on the agenda of the committee. Bhattacharya said.
He hoped that the committee would take steps to settle the demands of AASU forever. He said that the cumulative impact study of the mega dams under construction in the upper reaches of Brahmaputra should be done before a major catastrophe in the Northeast.
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