The invoice additionally has provision of seven years of imprisonment for many who apply polygamy and provision to compensate the victims of polygamy.
The Chief Minister mentioned that the invoice won't be utilized to scheduled tribe inhabitants tribal individuals of the state are nevertheless, saved out of the purview of the invoice resulting from current customary guidelines in tribal societies and that the invoice won't be applied in Sixth Schedule areas like BTAD, Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong.
The Chief Minister mentioned that the target is to remove practices of polygamy and polygamous marriage within the State of Assam besides Sixth Scheduled Areas.
“Polygamy is prohibited in respect of the one who shall not marry if he has a dwelling partner or shouldn't be legally separated from the opposite partner by following due process of legislation or is a celebration to a wedding which isn't but dissolved or annulled by a decree of divorce,” he mentioned including that the Invoice additional seeks to offer compensation to the sufferer girls as they must endure immense ache and hardship resulting from polygamous marriage.
“To avoid wasting the society from the scourge of such practices, this Invoice has been framed with the avowed goal to streamline the society,” he added.
The State Cupboard has permitted the “Assam Startup and Innovation Coverage 2025-30”, marking a big step towards positioning Assam as one in every of India's main hubs for entrepreneurship and innovation within the subsequent 5 years. The entire monetary implication for a interval of 5 years is Rs. 397 crore.
Ideation Grant: As much as Rs 10 lakh to validate ideas or construct proof-of-concept prototypes.As much as Rs 20 lakh for basic and tech startups; as much as Rs 40 lakh for deep-tech startups for constructing MVPs and testing merchandise.
Seed Fund (Assam Startup Seed Fund, equity-based): As much as Rs 50 lakh per startup as authorities corpus for fairness or co-investment (with max 4% fairness stake). Startup Enterprise Capital Fund: As much as Rs10 crore per startup as progress capital for scale.
