In an unprecedented move, the Assam government has decided to withdraw cases against members of the Koch-Rajbongshi community which are pending in the Foreigners Tribunals. At least 28,000 people stand to benefit from this move.<\/p>\n
The Assam government will also consider removing “D voter (doubtful voter)” tags against their names in the voters’ lists.<\/p>\n
The decision was taken at the state cabinet meeting today.<\/p>\n
After the meeting, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told reporters that 28,000 cases are pending in the Foreigners Tribunals across the state.<\/p>\n
Many of these involve people whose surnames are commonly found among the Koch-Rajbongshi community.<\/p>\n
These individuals had to fight legal battles to prove their Indian citizenship, in some cases for years.<\/p>\n
The state government plans to remove the D-voter tag from the affected people, Mr Sarma said.<\/p>\n
Dearness Allowance Hike<\/strong><\/p>\n The Assam government approved a 2 per cent hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) for state government employees and pensioners. The arrears for April and May will be disbursed accordingly.<\/p>\n Flood Control<\/strong><\/p>\n To strengthen embankment monitoring, the state government will set up a force comprising young people, with each unit consisting of 12-15 volunteers. The state government will equip them with essential flood-fighting material including geo bags, torchlight, raincoat, and gumboot.<\/p>\n The volunteers will oversee embankments spanning 8 to 12 km from April to October. On successful completion of their service, the Chief Minister will award them certificates.<\/p>\n \u200bIn an unprecedented move, the Assam government has decided to withdraw cases against members of the Koch-Rajbongshi community which are pending in the Foreigners Tribunals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an unprecedented move, the Assam government has decided to withdraw cases against members of the Koch-Rajbongshi community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":119503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/k982rfho_assam-nrc_625x300_20_September_19-7CZ0sp.jpeg",650,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/k982rfho_assam-nrc_625x300_20_September_19-7CZ0sp-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/k982rfho_assam-nrc_625x300_20_September_19-7CZ0sp-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/k982rfho_assam-nrc_625x300_20_September_19-7CZ0sp.jpeg",640,394,false],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/k982rfho_assam-nrc_625x300_20_September_19-7CZ0sp.jpeg",640,394,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/k982rfho_assam-nrc_625x300_20_September_19-7CZ0sp.jpeg",650,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/k982rfho_assam-nrc_625x300_20_September_19-7CZ0sp.jpeg",650,400,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/k982rfho_assam-nrc_625x300_20_September_19-7CZ0sp.jpeg",650,400,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/k982rfho_assam-nrc_625x300_20_September_19-7CZ0sp-590x400.jpeg",590,400,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}