We built the Policy Explorer to answer one question a manufacturer actually asks: which Assam and central government policies does my business qualify for, and what do they pay.
It is not a summary of press releases. Every figure on the page, a subsidy percentage, a loan cap, a reimbursement rate, is a direct quote from the official notification, gazette or scheme guideline, with a section and page reference attached. Where a policy leaves a number to case-by-case negotiation, the page says so plainly instead of guessing at one.
Figure · How the finder works
Three filters in, a sourced answer out, with money kept separate from the fine print.
A lapsed incentive, like the Renewable Energy Policy’s wheeling-charge discount past March 2026, drops out of the match automatically. Nothing here needs a manual update after a deploy.
The base policy every Assam manufacturer should know first
The Industrial and Investment Policy of Assam, 2019 (IIPA 2019) is the anchor scheme for a new or expanding manufacturing unit in the state. It offers 100% SGST reimbursement for 15 years, capped at 150 to 250% of fixed capital investment depending on enterprise size. It also offers a Rs 2 per unit power subsidy, a 100% stamp duty reimbursement up to Rs 25 lakh, a 2% working capital interest subsidy, and a 75% technology and ZED certification reimbursement. Nine incentive lines in total, read from the actual notification.
The 2024 extension notice, a scanned gazette we read page by page, confirms the policy runs “until further notifications,” with no quiet expiry date buried in it. The 2023 amendment sits alongside it as a separate, narrower clause: a customised package for Mega Projects above Rs 100 Cr, for the small set of businesses that size applies to.
Central schemes worth knowing about
Three central schemes sit alongside the Assam-specific ones:
- PMEGP, with the actual margin-money table by category and location: a subsidy of 15 to 35% of project cost, depending on category and whether the unit is urban or rural.
- MCGS-MSME, the credit guarantee that makes a Rs 20 to 100 Cr Medium enterprise bankable at a scale CGTMSE cannot reach: 60% guarantee coverage on term loans up to Rs 100 Cr, current as of the March 2026 modification.
- MSME Sustainable (ZED) Certification, where a Micro unit in Assam gets a North East top-up that takes the certification-cost subsidy to 90%, and a Rs 10,000 joining reward that can zero out a Bronze certification entirely.
What’s paused or closed, kept out of your way
Not every scheme that gets talked about is actually open. A separate “Closed, Paused or Superseded” section lists NEIDS 2017, Semicon India 1.0, and ECMS segments A, B, C and E, each with a quote, a source, and the date we checked. It sits on its own, outside the finder, so a closed scheme never shows up disguised as a live one.
UNNATI 2024 is not in the active list. Registration on the scheme portal is currently paused; when that changes, it goes back on the stack.
Every figure, split by what it actually is
Not every line inside a policy document is money in your pocket. Some are penalties, some are process steps, some are terms you sign up to in exchange for an incentive. The Explorer keeps the two apart: core incentives show up front, and terms, obligations and conditions collapse into their own section under each policy, labelled for what they are. The headline count only ever reflects money you can actually claim.
Where to go from here
Knowing which policies apply is the first question. The second is how much they are actually worth to your specific project, at your specific investment size, in your specific sector.
That is what the Incentive Estimator is for: run your numbers through it once you know which schemes from the Explorer apply to you.
Run the finder against your own profile, or browse the full list of 21 policies, every one of them expandable to its complete sourced detail.