Assam government tables Azim Premji University, fee regulation amendment bills in winter assembly

In the upcoming winter session assembly, the Assam government is going to table major bills including Azim Premji University Bill, fee regulation amendment, NERIM University Bill, among others.

Taking to his X account, state chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “Big changes are coming this winter session. From safeguarding families to modernising laws, Assam is gearing up for one of its most transformative legislative sessions.”

The Azim Premji University, Assam Bill will establish the institution as a private, self-financed university focusing on education, sustainability, public health, and social development. The Educational Institutions Fee Regulation Amendment brings minority schools under the fee regulatory mechanism and mandates 25 percent fee relaxation for schools in Panchayat areas. The other university bill also converts the North Eastern Regional Institute of Management (NERIM) into a private institution.

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Among other bills are teachers’ posting and transfer amendment, ASSTC teacher’s service rules 2025, non-teaching staff (provincialisation) amendment, non-teaching staff pay enhancement bill, provincialisation amendment bill 2025.

In March, the Assam government introduced bills to set up three universities and proposed amendments to the Acts governing eight others. Education minister Ranoj Pegu introduced the bills in the House, including two additional bills seeking amendments to the Assam Private Universities Act, 2007, and the Srimanta Sankardeva University of Health Sciences Act, 2007. The assembly passed a bill to regulate private coaching centres , mandating registration and compliance of rules by the coaching institutes.