Assam To Mandate Two-Child Policy; Eligibility Criteria For Govt Jobs
Assam to gradually impose a two-child policy that makes them eligible for government jobs, in addition to the amendment made in 2018 to the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994. The already existing two-child policy allows couples with two children, with minimum educational qualifications and functional sanitary toilets eligible to take part in rural polls. However, tea tribes, Scheduled Tribes, and Scheduled Castes are be exempted from the norm.
Tags: Assam, TWO-CHILD POLICY, GOVT JOBS, PLEGISLATION
Courtesy: NDTV