Formation of an autonomous State comprising certain tribal areas in Assam and creation of local Legislature or Council of Ministers or both therefor.
[3] The full text of the Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the bill is given below: On the 11th September, 1968, the Government of India announced the broad details of the scheme for constituting within the State of Assam an autonomous State comprising certain areas specified in Part A of the table appended to paragraph 20 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution.
Clause 2 of the Bill seeks to insert a new article 244A in the Constitution to confer the necessary legislative power on Parliament to enact a law for constituting the autonomous State and also to provide the autonomous State with a Legislature and a Council of Ministers with such powers and functions as may be defined by that law.
The Report of the Joint Committee on the Bill was presented to the Lok Sabha on 12 March 1969 .
The Bill, as reported by the Joint Committee, was withdrawn on 2 April 1969, by leave of the House.
The Bill was considered and passed in the original form by the Lok Sabha on 15 April 1969, and the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 1969[3] The bill received assent from then President Varahagiri Venkata Giri on 25 September 1969, and came into force on the same day.