The News National Bureau;
Assam to bring in new domicile policy, allowing only those born in the state to be entitled for govt jobs – Announces Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.
He also declared that his government would soon bring a law for life imprisonment in ‘love jihad’ cases, PTI reported.
With a view to bar candidates from other states from getting appointed to the Assam government’s posts, the state government is set to follow a clear-cut domicile policy in within a month. Speaking to the media, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “To begin with, we will follow this policy in the recruitment of grades III and IV posts. And we will implement this policy later in higher posts as well.”
The Chief Minister said, “We will move the Central Government to accord classical language status to Assamese. We have already initiated discussions on this issue with the Prime Minister.”
