World Champion Sprinter Hima Das To Be Appointed As Deputy Superintendent Of Police In Assam

<p>Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal chaired a meeting of his cabinet Wednesday night where a decision was taken to appoint World Championship sprinter Hima Das as a Deputy Superintendent of Police in the state.<br /><br />The cabinet also decided to amend the integrated sports policy of the state by appointing sportspersons as Class-I and Class-II officers in different departments of the state like Police, Excise, Transport etc, government spokesman and Industry minister Chandra Mohan Patowary told reporters.<br /><br />It was decided that Das will be appointed as a DSP rank officer in the Assam police and medal winners in Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games will be appointed as Class-I officers.<br /><br />Nicknamed 'Dhing Express', Hima Das is a 20-year-old Indian sprinter from Assam.<br /><br />She became the first Indian woman indeed the first-ever Indian athlete to win a gold medal in any format of a global track event at IAAF World U20 Championships when she clocked a speed of 51.46 seconds.<br /><br />The cabinet also took a decision to draft the cybersecurity policy for the state, he said.<br /><br />The meeting resolved to establish Bodoland and 6th Schedule areas Administrative Staff College.<br /><br />The meet approved a proposal to provide free electricity to all households for the consumption of up to 30 units a month for the period January 2021 to March 2021.<br /><br />The Hills Areas Department will be renamed and will work as Assam Sixth Schedule Council Department.<br /><br />The meeting consented to establish a mini secretariat in Barak Valley at Silchar and it will start with six departments- personnel, revenue and disaster management,general administration department, agriculture, fishery and animal husbandry, and veterinary departments.<br /><br />The cabinet also agreed to adopt an energy conservation building code- providing for energy conservation in commercial buildings<br /><br />A Green signal was given to a proposal to provide service benefits to employees of Municipal Boards.<br /><br />The meeting further decided to allot land to different organizations, including the Gauhati Press Club.<br /><br />It also approved in principle a new campus of Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra at Dibrugarh.<br /><br />Patowary said that the Council of Ministers also agreed to rename the Public Works Department as Lok Nirman Bibhag.</p>

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