On Monday, the Cabinet also adopted the "Assam Occupational Safety, Healthy, and Working Conditions Rules, 2022" to ensure workers' safety and working conditions.
Digital Desk: Assam Cabinet, in its meeting presided over by the state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday, granted sanction to the proposal to replace paper ballots with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation Election.
The Assam government also announced that trade licenses would no longer be required to establish commercial institutes, except specified categories, as part of its measures under 'Ease of Doing Business'.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced the decisions of the Assam Cabinet meeting, saying several important issues such as repealing obsolete laws, revising land premium rates, ensuring worker safety, empowering law enforcers, and transparency in Guwahati Municipal Corporation Election were discussed.
Approval to the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022 for replacing paper ballots with EVMs to ensure transparency and efficiency in elections," reads a bulletin tweeted by Sarma.
"At today's Assam Cabinet, we took several important decisions pertaining to repealing of obsolete laws, revision of land premium rates, ease of doing business, ensuring the safety of workers, empowering law enforcers, raising loan from NABARD, transparency in Guwahati Municipal Corporation Election, etc," he tweeted with snapshots of the bulletin.
The Assam Cabinet has determined that no trade licence would be necessary for establishing any commercial institute, excluding brink kilns, liquor shops, hospitals, schools, and other enterprises that cause substantial pollution, in order to increase the ease of doing business in the state.
According to the report, the notion of revenue town has also been abandoned.
"All revenue towns will be treated as rural areas for the purpose of land revenues, except the district headquarters and few other important towns while the periphery of all other towns will be treated as rural areas and land premium and other charges will be fixed as per notified rates of rural areas," reads the bulletin.
On Monday, the Cabinet also adopted the "Assam Occupational Safety, Healthy, and Working Conditions Rules, 2022" to ensure workers' safety and working conditions.
It includes regulations such as a yearly medical checkup for every worker over the age of 40 and the formation of a safety committee for each firm employing 100 or more individuals.
Meanwhile, the Assam Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2022, was also adopted during the meeting to reinforce law enforcement authorities in their efforts to reduce intoxicants. The Assam Excise Repealing Bill has been adopted in order to make doing business in the Excise department easier.
The Cabinet has resolved to raise "Rs 142 crore as loan from NABARD for the continuation of projects sanctioned under RIDF-XXVII in Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Elementary Education, and Irrigation department" for improved financial management. The corpus of contingency reserves has also been expanded from Rs 200 crore to Rs 2,000 crore to face unforeseen events such as natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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