From Our Correspondent
GUWAHATI: The Assam Employees Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and Monitoring (PRANAM) Commission has been launched in the state by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal to ensure that government employees take care of old parents and divyang siblings.
“We have ensured that no state government employee can ignore their old parents and unmarried divyang siblings. PRANAM bill is an effort from the state government to protect the old parents and divyang siblings in their times of need and give them financial security,” Sonowal said.
PRANAM is the first-of-its-kind bill in the country which makes it mandatory for the Assam government employees to look after their parents and unmarried divyang siblings who do not have any income.
If any such complaint of negligence of old parents by a state government employee is reported to the commission then 10 percent, or 15 percent in some cases, of the employee’s salary will be deducted and paid to the aggrieved parents or divyang siblings.
