Crucial HLC meeting on implementation of Clause 6 of Assam Accord to be held tomorrow

The second meeting of the High Level Committee constituted by the Centre to look into the implementation of Clause 6 of Assam Accord will be held in Guwahati on Friday.

Significantly, chief minister Sarbanada Sonowal will attend the meet along with senior officials of the state government. Joint Secretary Northeast in Ministry of Home Affairs, Satyendra Garg will also attend the meet.

It may be mentioned that the first meeting of the High Level Committee was held in Delhi on July 24th. The committee members also had an interactive session with Union Home Minister Amit Shah following their first meet in North Block.

Meanwhile, the Centre has agreed to the demand of the committee to include a tribal member in the panel and as such eminent educationist Mrinal Miri has been included in the panel taking the total strength of members to 14.

The committee headed by Former Gauhati High Court Judge – Justice Biplab Kumar Sarma, comprises of Assam Advocate General – Ramesh Bor-patra-Gohain, Arunachal Pradesh Advocate General – Niloy Dutta, Former Bureaucrat – Subhash Das, Former Assam – ADGP Pallab Bhattacharya, Academecian – Srishtidhar Dutta, Author and Columnist – Sumanta Chaliha, Academecian – Jaikanta Sharma, Northeast Live Editor-in-Chief – Wasbir Hussain, AASU Chief Advisor – Samujjal Bhattacharya, AASU President – Dipankar Kumar Nath, AASU General Secretary – Lurin Jyoti Gogoi and Joint Secretary Satyendra Garg.