GUWAHATI: Assam government on Friday released the list of holidays for 2021 as per which state government employees need to work for only 68% of the 365 days in the upcoming year.
The notification by commissioner and secretary of general administration department, MS Manivannan, however, underlines that these declared state holidays “will not be automatically applicable to the educational institutions, medical/engineering colleges,” which have been advised to have lesser holidays.
The order stated: “It is desirable that the number of holidays may be decreased for educational institutions, medical/engineering Colleges etc. and they will adopt academic calendars decreasing the number of holidays.”