Assam Assembly Passes Bill To Protect Tangible Heritage

admin September 3, 2020 Daily Current Affairs

The Assam Assembly passed a bill to protect, preserve and restore tangible heritage, which are currently not covered under any national or state law.
As per the clause, constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, as may be appropriate, shall be provided to protect, preserve and promote the culture, social, linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese people.
The bill seeks to include museum objects like coins, sculptures, manuscripts, epigraphs or other work of art and craftsmanship and all cultural artifacts of indigenous people.
It seeks to protect, preserve, conserve, maintain and restore the tangible heritage of Assam.
The act will cover all those heritage that have been in existence for at least 75 years, and will be other than those declared as national importance by Parliament or those covered under the Assam Ancient Monuments and Records Act, 1959.
The assembly also passed a bill to set up a unitary, non-affiliating, residential and state university — Sati Sadhani Rajyik Vishwavidyalaya in Golaghat district.
Sati Sadhani, who was the last queen of the Chutia dynasty and played a prominent part in the fight against the Ahoms.
Further, the House passed the Assam College Employees (Provincialisation)(Amendment) Bill, 2020 for extending the period to refund the government’s share of contributory provident fund in case of retired or expired employees of the provincialised colleges.