Assam Government
Assam government decides to award 15 employees on their performances every year
Guwahati: The Assam government on Wednesday decided to award 5 non-gazatted employees at district level and 10 employees at state level on their performances and the award winning employees will get one year extension in their service after retirement.
The decision was taken during the Assam cabinet meeting chaired by Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma held at Janata Bhawan in Guwahati.
The state cabinet decided to observe death anniversary of Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi on August 5 as Karmachari Divas every year.
“Five non-gazetted employees of the state government at district level and 10 employees at state level will be awarded on Karmachari Divas based on their performances and the award winning employees will get one-year extension in their service after retirement,” Assam Water Resources minister Pijush Hazarika said.
The Assam cabinet also decided that, from now onwards, the state anthem ‘O Mur Apunar Dekh’ will be played at the beginning of all government programmes, meetings etc while national anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ will be played at the end.
“The cabinet also decided that only hand woven ‘gamosa’ of state’s weavers will be used from now onwards in the government programmes and only traditional food items like pitha etc will be served in the government programmes from now onwards,” Pijush Hazarika said.
“All government employees have to clear their pending electricity bills till July and NOC about clearance of bills to be submitted and no NOC required for regular payment of bills after the month of July,” the minister said.
Other decisions taken by the Assam cabinet are – Deshbhakta Tarun Ram Phukan’s death anniversary on July 28 will be observed every year as Desh Bhakti Divas. Information and Public Relations department will organize various activities in the districts and sub-divisions to mark the occasion, guardian Ministers and guardian secretaries, in charge of those districts where containment zones have been declared, will travel to their respective districts and stay there for 3 days to monitor and oversee the situation and alidity of TET certificates will be extended to lifetime. However, candidates will be allowed betterment in TET examination and upper age limit will apply in recruitment.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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