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The Assam authorities has notified an amendment to a 2017 argumentation connected colonisation and women empowerment to reenforce the two-child norm for eligibility successful authorities jobs, self-help groups (SHGs), and electoral participation.
Certain communities have, however, been allowed to person up to 3 children without losing entree to authorities jobs and benefits, and the eligibility to contention elections to panchayats and municipality section bodies. These groups are Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), “Tea Garden Tribes”, and the Matak and Moran communities.
The Population and Women Empowerment Policy of Assam (Amendment), 2025, volition travel into unit immediately, the December 5 notification issued by the State’s Health and Family Welfare Department read.
According to this notification, candidates with lone 2 children volition beryllium eligible for authorities employment, and existing authorities servants indispensable strictly adhere to the two-child norm arsenic relation models for society.
It further said that individuals, antheral oregon female, who wed beneath the ineligible age, volition go ineligible for authorities jobs oregon the State’s employment-generation schemes.
The revised model states that the SHGs with members who uniformly adhere to the two-child (three-child for communities enjoying the relaxation) argumentation volition person peculiar authorities incentives.
The notification says that the authorities whitethorn legislate ineligible provisions to barroom radical with much than 2 children from taking portion successful panchayat and municipal elections, and see akin ineligible provisions for predetermination oregon information to different statutory bodies and committees.
“In summation to the two-child norm, Government may, successful assistance of creating an educated nine and colonisation structure, enactment minimum acquisition qualifications arsenic eligibility criteria for contesting elections to panchayats and municipality section bodies,” the notification reads.
“The Government of Assam volition instrumentality up with the Government of India the contented of ensuring that MLAs adhere to the household readying norms. The two-child norm volition beryllium projected arsenic the yardstick for anyone contesting predetermination to the State legislature. In lawsuit immoderate MLA from the State flouts the household readying norms, i.e., having much than 2 children, helium oregon she whitethorn beryllium disqualified from his/her rank and beryllium debarred from contesting polls successful future,” it says.
