- Assam Government on February 26, 2019 launched the Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and Monitoring (PRANAM) commission to look after the issues concerning a Bill, for protection of parents of state government employees.
- Launching the PRANAM Bill in Guwahati , Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had said ,it is an effort to protect elderly parents of government employees in their times of need.
- As per the Chief Minister, the Assam government would ensure that no state government employee can ignore their elderly parents and unmarried differently abled siblings.
- PRANAM Bill, which was approved by the cabinet last year, makes it mandatory for state government employees to look after their parents and unmarried Divyang siblings who do not have their own sources of income.
