‘Clear pending job applications of all Assam Agitation victims’ families’

GUWAHATI: The All Assam Martyrs-Victims’ Family Council on Friday met Assam chief secretary Alok Kumar and demanded jobs for the families of the martyrs and victims of the Assam Agitation as per Clause 14 of the Assam Accord.
The council welcomed the Centre’s recent decision to set up a high-level committee to to provide constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards to the indigenous people of Assam in accordance with the Clause 6 of the accord. They, however, rued that there has not been a move to implement Clause 6 of the accord which states that all the families of victims of the Assam Agitation are eligible for government jobs.

Principal secretary of the council Manik Chandra Debnath said that 881 families of martyrs and victims of the Assam Agitation are yet to get jobs as per government rules.

“Since 1986 to June 20, 2018, a total of 528 families of martyrs and victims have got jobs under Assam Public Service (Preferential Appointment) Rules, 1999, which was framed to give jobs to members of martyrs’ families or those rendered physically challenged during the six-year-long movement. But files of around 400 applicants from such families are pending in various government departments,” he said.

“Five applicants from the martyrs and victims’ families got jobs in the state water resources department on June 20. We appeal to the state government to clear all the pending files by January 26,” Debnath added.