Guwahati, Oct. 23 -- The Assam cabinet on Thursday decided to exempt members of the Tea Tribe, Moran, Motok and Scheduled Tribe communities from the provision of restricting the number of children to two under the State Population Policy.

The decision was taken in the state cabinet meeting held at Lok Sewa Bhawan in Guwahati under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

Announcing the cabinet decision, the Assam Chief Minister said, "We are relaxing two two-child norms for the tribal, tea tribes, and the Moran-Matak community people are concerned. Because they are a micro community. If we restrict their population, they may cease to exist after 50 years. So we have taken opinions from various social scientists and we hav...