Cabinet scraps 2-child policy for STs, tea tribes
	
		
				Guwahati, Oct. 25 -- The Assam cabinet on Thursday approved the exemption of Scheduled Tribes (STs), tea tribes and the Moran and Muttock communities from the state's two-child policy for government jobs and local body elections, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
"Today's cabinet decided to keep STs, tea-tribes and the Moran and Muttock communities outside the purview of the provision of the two-child norm," Sarma said after the cabinet meeting. "If we are strict in enforcing them for these communities, a time could come when these micro-communities like Morans who have around 100,000 population would get reduced further and become minuscule and lose their identity."
Sarma said that the cabinet also discussed in detail about providin...
		
			
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