The Assam authorities has notified an modification to a 2017 coverage on inhabitants and ladies empowerment to strengthen the two-child norm for eligibility in authorities jobs, self-help teams (SHGs), and electoral participation.
Sure communities have, nevertheless, been allowed to have as much as three youngsters with out dropping entry to authorities jobs and advantages, and the eligibility to contest elections to panchayats and concrete native our bodies. These teams are Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), “Tea Backyard Tribes”, and the Matak and Moran communities.
The Inhabitants and Ladies Empowerment Coverage of Assam (Modification), 2025, will come into power instantly, the December 5 notification issued by the State’s Well being and Household Welfare Division learn.
In keeping with this notification, candidates with solely two youngsters might be eligible for presidency employment, and present authorities servants should strictly adhere to the two-child norm as position fashions for society.
It additional mentioned that people, male or feminine, who marry under the authorized age, will turn out to be ineligible for presidency jobs or the State’s employment-generation schemes.
The revised framework states that the SHGs with members who uniformly adhere to the two-child (three-child for communities having fun with the comfort) coverage will obtain particular authorities incentives.
The notification says that the federal government could legislate authorized provisions to bar folks with greater than two youngsters from collaborating in panchayat and municipal elections, and contemplate related authorized provisions for election or nomination to different statutory our bodies and committees.
“Along with the two-child norm, Authorities could, in assist of making an informed society and inhabitants construction, put minimal instructional {qualifications} as eligibility standards for contesting elections to panchayats and concrete native our bodies,” the notification reads.
“The Authorities of Assam will take up with the Authorities of India the problem of making certain that MLAs adhere to the household planning norms. The 2-child norm might be proposed because the yardstick for anybody contesting election to the State legislature. In case any MLA from the State flouts the household planning norms, ie, having greater than two youngsters, she or he could also be disqualified from his/her membership and be debarred from contesting polls in future,” it says.
Revealed – December 06, 2025 09:27 pm IST