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The Assam Cabinet connected Thursday (October 23, 2025) decided to array a study connected the 1983 Nellie massacre successful the November league of the 126-member State Assembly.
More than 2,000 radical were killed successful the Nellie incident, which occurred connected February 18, 1983, during the highest of the anti-foreigners Assam Agitation. The victims were migrant Muslims, mostly women and children.
“This study has not been tabled truthful acold due to the fact that the transcript with the Assam Government did not person the signature of the Commission’s chairman. We verified it done interviews with officials of that play and forensic checks,” Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
The past Assam Government constituted the panel, headed by Justice Tribhuvan Prasad Tiwari, to probe the causes and circumstances starring to the massacre. It was ne'er made public, though the Commission reportedly submitted it to the authorities successful 1984.
The Chief Minister indicated that tabling the study aft 4 decades would guarantee transparency and code the demands from quality rights activists, researchers, and governmental groups for the merchandise of the study connected the darkest section successful Assam’s governmental history.
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Two-child argumentation relaxation
The State Cabinet besides announced the exemption of the Scheduled Tribes, “tea tribes” (Adivasis), Moran, and Matak communities from the two-child argumentation for authorities jobs.
The policy, which came into effect successful January 2021 nether the Assam Public Services Rules, 2019, volition proceed to use to different communities.
The Chief Minister said this determination was taken aft extended consultations with societal scientists. “If we instrumentality to the policy, these populations volition suffer their chiseled identities and gradually go extinct successful the adjacent 50 years,” helium stated.
He besides announced that the authorities volition gradually instrumentality the two-child argumentation for availing benefits nether circumstantial State payment schemes, but volition not enforce it for circumstantial indigenous groups to guarantee their preservation.
The Chief Minister further said the authorities would amend the Land Ceiling Act to administer 2.9 lakh bighas (approximately 96,000 acres) of onshore among 4 lakh families of beverage plantation workers. “This is simply a large societal improvement initiative,” helium said.
