Context The Assam government has set up an eight-member sub-committee to examine and prepare a framework for the implementation of all clauses of the Assam Accord of 1985.
The sub-committee has also been mandated to examine and prepare a framework for updating the National Register of Citizens, issues of flood and erosion, rehabilitation of martyrs’ families and victims of Assam Agitation besides the potential of the State’s all-round development.
What is Assam Accord?
It was a tripartite accord signed between the Government of India, State Government of Assam and the leaders of the Assam Movement in 1985.
The signing of the Accord led to the conclusion of a six-year agitation that was launched by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) in 1979, demanding the identification and deportation of illegal immigrants from Assam.
It sets a cut-off of midnight of 24th March 1971, for the detection of illegal foreigners in Assam.
However, the demand was for detection and deportation of migrants who had illegally entered Assam after 1951.
Do you know?
The Clause 6 of the Accord pertains to the constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards to “protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese people”.
