- Assam Assembly passes six Education Department bills after opposition walkout.
- Four amendment bills cleared following a four-hour debate led by Education Minister Ranoj Pegu.
- Opposition demanded voting and deeper review, but Speaker proceeded; two university bills passed by voice vote.
- Government says the reforms will strengthen Assam’s education system.
GG News Bureau
Guwahati, 1st Dec: The Assam Assembly on Saturday, November 29, passed six bills linked to the Education Department, clearing them in the absence of opposition members who walked out after their demand for voting and further scrutiny went unanswered.
Four major amendment bills were approved following a debate that lasted more than four hours. These included the Assam Non-Governmental Educational Institutions (Regulation of Fees) (Amendment) Bill, 2025; the Assam Education (Provincialisation of Teachers and Re-organisation of Educational Institutions) (Amendment) Bill, 2025; the Assam Elementary and Secondary School Teachers (Regulation of Posting and Transfer) (Amendment) Bill, 2025; and the Assam Education (Provincialisation of Services of Non-teaching Staff of Venture Educational Institutions) (Amendment) Bill, 2025.
All four were moved by Education Minister Ranoj Pegu. Opposition parties — Congress, CPI(M) and Independent MLA Akhil Gogoi — said none of their proposed amendments were accepted. They urged the government to allow voting, but no response was given. Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia argued that the amendments required detailed discussion and proper voting. When the Speaker proceeded with passage of the bills, the opposition staged a walkout.
Two additional bills — the Azim Premji University Bill, 2025 and the North Eastern Regional Institute of Management (NERIM) University Bill, 2025 — were passed by voice vote on the last day of the Winter Session. Both were introduced by Minister Pegu, who said the government was committed to restructuring and strengthening the state’s education sector.
Pegu later wrote on X that the day’s legislative actions, including the Rabindranath Tagore University (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and the Su-Ka-Pha University Bill, 2025, were aimed at reorganising institutions, rationalising fees and improving staff-related processes.
Opposition members, however, criticised the pace of the legislative push, arguing that such substantial changes required deeper examination and more time for review.
With the passage of these six bills, the state government has advanced a set of structural reforms across school and higher education. The opposition has signalled that it will continue to challenge the process in the upcoming sessions.
