{"id":300890,"date":"2018-07-30T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300890"},"modified":"2018-07-30T05:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T05:59:00","slug":"care-for-dependent-parents-assam-governments-new-law-for-govt-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/care-for-dependent-parents-assam-governments-new-law-for-govt-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Care for dependent parents: Assam Government&#8217;s new law for govt employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300891 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/biswas-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/biswas-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/biswas-768x744.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/biswas-696x674.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/biswas-434x420.jpg 434w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/biswas.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The BJP-led alliance government in Assam is set to unveil a new law from October 2, <\/span>2018<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">, making it mandatory for nearly four lakh state government employees to look after their aged and dependent parents and differently-abled siblings who do not have a source of income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis is to ensure that they (the employees) look their parents, who do not have any source of income and are dependent on them. The employee should also take care of <\/span>the physically<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> challenged sibling, who is also dependent on him,&#8221; health and finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2017, the state assembly had passed Assam Employees Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and Monitoring (PRANAM) Bill, 2017 &#8211; which makes all these compulsory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;If a particular government employee does not take good care of his or her parents then we will deduct 10 percent from their salary and transfer it to their parents&#8217; account,&#8221; Sarma added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sarma said that if there is any sibling that the parents need to take care of then the salary cut may go up to 15%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also added that if the ignored parents have more than one child working as a state government employee, the penalty will be distributed equally among their children. Pensioner parents are not covered under the scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe state government may consider extending the same to state government public sector units and corporations. We have decided to have an appellate authority, which can look after claims and grievances under the act,\u201d Sarma further added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP-led alliance government in Assam is set to unveil a new law from October 2, 2018, making it mandatory for nearly four lakh state government employees to look after their aged and dependent parents and differently-abled siblings who do not have a source of income. \u201cThis is to ensure that they (the employees) look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,2014],"tags":[1758,453,3897],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300892,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300890\/revisions\/300892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}