Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and Monitoring (PRANAM) Bill

Question: Consider the following statement related to PRANAM bill:
1) Assam State Government has launched the PRANAM Commission
2) It ensures that no State Government Employee ignores their elderly parents and unmarried differently-abled siblings.
Choose the incorrect option:
(a) Only(1)
(b) Only(2)
(c) Both (1) and (2)
(d) Neither (1) nor (2)
Answer (d)
Related facts:

  • Assam State Government has launched the PRANAM Commission on26th February, 2019, a panel set up to look after the issues concerning a Bill brought in for protection of parents of state government employees.
  • The Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and Monitoring (PRANAM) Bill, stated to be the first-of its-kind Bill in the country. The objective of the bill is to ensure that no state government employee ignores their elderly parents and unmarried differently-abled siblings.
  • The PRANAM Bill makes it mandatory for the state government employees to look after their parents and unmarried differently-abled siblings who do not have their own sources of income.
  • In case of any complaint 10 or 15 % of the employee’s salary will be deducted by the government and paid to the parents or differently-abled siblings.
  • The employees of private companies and the central government working in the state would also be covered by the bill at a later stage.

By Achyutanand Pandey

Links:
https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/assam-himanta-biswa-sarma-sarbananda-sonowal-assam-employees-parents-responsibility-and-norms-for-accountability-and-monitoring-bill-pranam-bill/261590
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/assam-law-to-make-it-must-for-govt-employees-to-care-for-dependent-parents/articleshow/65164621.cms?from=mdr
http://www.newsonair.com/News?title=Assam-launches-PRANAM-Commission-to-protect-parents-of-govt-employees&id=360313