Guwahati, Nov. 27 -- The Assam assembly on Thursday passed the Assam Satra Preservation and Development Commission Bill, 2025, for the protection, preservation, management, maintenance and regulation of the cultural heritage of the Satras and their lands for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

After the bill was passed, Assam Chief Minister Hemanta Biswa Sarma, while speaking to the reporters, stated that the Bill will focus on retrieving the land illegally occupied by the infiltrators in the state.

"The Bill will definitely help to empower our culture...empower our civilisation, and also the eviction drive which is going on in several parts of the state...Through this Bill, we also try to get the land which was illegall...