Major decisions taken at the Assam Cabinet meeting

Digital Desk: At the weekly Assam cabinet meeting that was conducted on Friday, several significant decisions were made.

The meeting made decisions on revising examination norms, providing relief to electricity customers, increasing power generation, honouring Pratima Barua Pandey's legacy, ensuring ease of school operation, providing relief to ASEB pensioners, and other issues.

The following are the major decisions:

1. The cabinet has approved the issue of a notification for the holding of regular examinations for students in classes V and VII at the end of each academic year, as well as the method and conditions for holding back a child under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Act, 2019.

2. In order to minimize tariff increases and provide assistance to household consumers, a Rs 190 crore power purchase subsidy was announced for the fiscal year 2022–23.

3. The re-appropriation bid and Rs 300.7 crores have been authorized in order to carry out the 24 MW Karbi Langpi Middle II Hydro Project.

4. The project is expected to be finished within 36 months of its commencement.

5. Additionally, the project will significantly increase Assam Power Generation Corporation Ltd. (APGCLpower )'s production, enabling it to satisfy the state's rising energy demand.

6. Non-AA financial sanction for an Rs. 285 crore contribution to the ASEB Pension Fund to relieve ASEB pensioners

7. Almost 20,000 pensioners from ASEB or successor companies will be benefited from the proposed plan.

8. To enhance existing construction licenses, the Assam Unified Building Byelaws, 2022 were approved for the master plan areas of Assam.

9. To honour the life and legacy of famed Goalpara folk singer and composer Padma Shri Pratima Barua Pandey, 12 bighas, 3 Katha, and 18 lessa land at Matibag have been purchased for Rs 15 crores for the construction of a living museum out of Hawakhana.

10. Modifications have been made in the Guwahati Master Plan 2025 for the Guwahati Metropolitan Area to accommodate requirements for the implementation of Transit-oriented Development (TOD), the identification of transit corridors, transit nodes, and their corresponding influence areas.

11. Financial and administrative functions of overlapping schools between educational blocks in the districts of Barpeta, Baksa, Bajali, Nalbari, Kamrup (Metro), Kamrup, Nagaon, Morigaon, Sonitpur, Biswanath, Lakhimpur, and Dhemaji have been readjusted.

12. This will reduce administrative differences in schools located within the geographical boundaries of one education block but managed by another.