ASSAM launches PRANAM Commission to Protect Govt Employees’ Parents

ASSAM Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has launched the PRANAM Commission, a panel set up to look after the issues concerning a Bill, for protection of parents of state government employees. Launching The Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and Monitoring (PRANAM) Bill in Guwahati on February 26, Sonowal said it is an effort to protect elderly parents of government employees in their times of need. The Assam government would ensure that no state government employee can ignore their elderly parents and unmarried differently abled siblings.PRANAM Bill, which was approved by the cabinet last year, makes it mandatory for state government employees to look after their parents and unmarried Divyang siblings who do not have their own sources of income. Launching The Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and Monitoring (PRANAM) Bill in Guwahati yesterday, Mr. Sonowal said ,it  is an effort to protect elderly parents of government employees in their times of need.

ASSAM Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has launched the PRANAM Commission mandated to implement the Bill brought in for protection of parents of state government employees. The Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and Monitoring (PRANAM) Bill, stated to be the first-of its-kind Bill in the country, is an effort to protect elderly parents of government employees in their times of need, Sonowal said.”We have ensured that no state government employee can ignore their elderly parents and unmarried differently abled siblings. The PRANAM Bill intends to protect them and give them financial security,” the Chief Minister said adding that it would be better if this Bill did not require to be implemented. PRANAM Bill, which was approved by the state cabinet last year, makes it mandatory for state government employees to look after their parents and unmarried differently abled siblings who do not have their own sources of income. If the PRANAM Commission gets a complaint that parents of a state government employee are being ignored, 10 or 15 per cent of the employee’s salary will be deducted by the government and paid to the parents or differently abled siblings. Speaking on the occasion, finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said this Bill would benefit 8 lakh parents of 4 lakh state government employees. Employees of private companies and the central government working in the state would also be covered by the Bill at a later stage, he said.The chief minister also handed over appointment letters to chief commissioner V B Pyarelal and commissioners Dr Alaka Desai Sarma and Jugabala Buragohain of the PRANAM Commission.