Guwahati: The Assam Cabinet has nodded to bring laws at the State Assembly for the protection of cattle, the Minister of Parliament Pijush Hazarika said on Thursday.
“We announced earlier that the Government Assam would bring new laws for preservation of livestock or Gou Surakha.
Our cabinet meeting on Wednesday gave his approval in this matter,” Hazarika said.
Governor Assam Jagdish Mukhi, in his speech in the last assembly session in May, said that the state government would soon bring a cow protection bill to ban transportation to and from the country.
Then, Minister of Himanta’s minister could Sarma, while speaking during the discussion about the governor’s movement for the governor’s speech, told the house, “We believe that cattle are our mothers and people worship it.
So, we don’t want cows from West Bengal.
We will want it in places where cows are worshiped, it is not consumed there.
“Hazarika said he or the minister’s head would describe later about the law but because the bill needed to be submitted in the Assembly, the Cabinet had provided a nod.
Assembly Assemblies Session will begin on Monday.
The Cattle Preservation Act Assam, 1950, has provisions governing livestock slaughter in Assam, provided the veterinary officer concerned provides a fit-published certificate.
The massacre of livestock over the age of 14 is scheduled.
However, the law was reportedly still violated in many parts of the country for years.
The new law is set to replace the Cattle Assam Conservation Act, 1950 as consumption of beef is not a violation under the laws in Assam.
Cattle smuggling to Bangladesh through the porous international border in the West Assam was ongoing for decades.
The new government led by BJP has come out of cattle smuggling and the new law is close, said the government’s source.
Among the various decisions taken in the cabinet, Hazarika said people who took refuge in government land would now qualify for government assistance.
He, however, said that habitual encroachment or people living in forest land would not benefit from the decision.
Along with laws to protect cows, the cabinet has also decided to notify the Gorkha community in the four territorial territory of Bodoland in Kokrajhar, Chirang, Besa and Udalguri as a protected class.
The government’s sources say that together with the protection of cattle, emphasis has been placed to provide social security to Gorkha, known as cattle protection.
Also, Tai-Ahom, Moran, Moto, Chutia and the Gorkha community who live in the Tribal Belt Sadia above Assam have been told as a class protected by the Country Cabinet.
“The Government Assam has started a complete review of the belt and the protected block and at first, the announcement for BTR and Sadiya belt belt has been made,” said Minister Ranoj Pegu.
He added that the process has begun in several fields, which may be smaller sized, to make belts and tribal blocks.