Consensus Reached On 38 Of 52 Recommendations: Himanta Biswa Sarma On Assam Accord After AASU Meet

Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that his government and student body All Assam Students Union (AASU) have reached an agreement on implementing 38 of the 52 recommendations of a high-level committee on Clause 6 of the Assam Accord of 1985.

“Among all recommendations of the committee, 52 come under purview of the Assam government. Today, AASU and the state government reached an agreement on implementing 38 of those recommendations," he said following a meeting with representatives of AASU.

He also said that the 38 recommendations will be implemented in a time-bound manner through provisions in the upcoming budget of the state as well as various legislations and ordinances in the future.

He said, “There will be further discussions with AASU in March and in April on implementing the remaining 14 recommendations of the committee. We hope to reach an agreement on those as well."

The 38 recommendations include mandatory inclusion of Assamese language as a subject in all schools of Brahmaputra Valley and Assamese and Bodo languages as subjects in all schools in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), he said.

The Assam government will also identify some blocks in the state where only those who have been residing there for at least three generations or since 1951 will be allowed to buy land, he said.

The state government has already asked the Centre to hold tripartite talks to implement the recommendations of the high-level committee which don’t fall under the jurisdiction of the state government, he stated.

The Assam Accord was a tripartite agreement signed in 1985 between the Centre, All Assam Students Union (AASU) and All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad (AAGSP).