New panel to protect Assam’s heritage Cabinet recommends quota for indigenous communities Special Correspondent New Delhi The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the set- ting up of a high-level com- mittee for implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Ac- cord which provides for con- stitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards to protect, preserve and pro- mote the cultural, social, lin- guistic identity and heritage Ministers Rajnath Singh and Ravi Shankar Prasad during the of Assam. It also recom- Cabinet briefing in New Delhi on Wednesday. * R.V. MOORTHY mended reserving Assembly seats for indigenous com- munities in the State. Home Minister Rajnath Singh had assured Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal in May 2018 that a committee would be set up at the earliest in consulta- tion with the State government. “It has been felt that Clause 6 of the Assam Ac- cord has not been fully im- plemented even almost 35 years after the accord was DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD signed,” Mr. Rajnath Singh told a press conference on tion in employment,” Mr. seum-cum-language and Wednesday. “The commit- Singh said. cultural study centre, mo- tee will assess the require- The Cabinet approved dernisation of the existing ment of measures to be ta- several measures to fulfil the AIR station and Doordar- ken to protect Assamese and demands of the Bodo com- shan Kendra at Kokrajhar other indigenous languages munity. It approved the esta- and naming a superfast train and the quantum of reserva- blishment of a Bodo Mu- as Aronai Express..