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Policy analysis, industrial intelligence, and sector benchmarks for Northeast India's manufacturing transition.

14 Approvals, 6 Departments, One New Law That Changes the Sequence

DPR preparation, regulatory approvals, land and infrastructure, the real cost breakdown, compliance stack, and the 2026 MSME Facilitation Bill that lets non-polluting units start first and get permission later.

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13 August 2026 20 min read read

Jagiroad's packaging plant can assemble 48 million chips a day, but the leadframes, bonding wire and moulding compound it runs on barely exist in India yet. This report maps what's missing, piece by piece, and which parts an Assam MSME could realistically build.

Assam's Jagiroad chip-assembly plant needs a component supply chain that doesn't fully exist yet. This maps the nine ancillary industries it depends on, what breaks if each is missing, and what it would cost an Assam MSME to build it.

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3 August 2026 15 min read read

Death toll in Assam's severe 2026 floods has risen to 100 people, while 1.5 lakhs are affected across 10 districts. With marquee investments like the Rs 27,000 crore Tata semiconductor plant, all stakeholders need to work towards building flood-resilient industrial infrastructure for Assam to industrialise.

ISRO's 26-year satellite record puts Morigaon at 70-80% cumulative flood inundation. APDCL disconnected 619 transformers in one day. Assam's industrial base is located in the flood plain. This briefing maps the exposure and sets out the engineering roadmap.

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27 July 2026 22 min read read

Singapore's HC asks publicly for more Tezpur litchis. The supply chain cannot deliver. Here is why the gap exists and what it will take to close it.

Singapore's HC asks for more Tezpur litchis. Four processing units take shape under MMUY. LGBI cargo grew 15.1% last year. The demand side is ready. The supply side is not.

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14 June 2026 20 min read read

How a 22-kilometre strip of land, three railway ministries, and seventy years of policy neglect conspired to keep India's east from industrialising - and what an aligned centre-state government could actually do about it.

A diagnostic and forward-looking roadmap examining structural logistics failures across Assam and West Bengal, with a focused industrialisation strategy for semiconductors/electronics and agri-processing.

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9 May 2026 28 min read read

What AIDC actually reads, the 6 fatal numbers most MSMEs get wrong, and how to be in the 32% that pass Stage 1.

68% of MSME factory applications fail AIDC Stage 1. Complete TEFR guide: DSCR, break-even, capacity ramp, and the 6 fatal flaws that kill most submissions.

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17 April 2026 18 min read read

Penang Built It In 50 Years. Sanand Is Trying In 5. Here Is What Morigaon Still Needs.

Comparative OSAT ecosystem analysis: Penang's mature cluster, Sanand's rapid build, and the 70-point readiness gap Morigaon must close before TSAT opens.

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10 April 2026 16 min read read

As marquee industrial incentive schemes like UNNATI 2024 are getting phased out, MSMEs looking to set up industries in Assam need to file for updated incentive and subsidy schemes. This report lays out the Aug 2026 landscape.

Updated August 2026: UNNATI 2024's registration window is closed as of now, with NEIDS 2017 closing in 2022. This guide sets out the incentive stack actually open to new Assam MSME applicants today, IIPA 2019 (AIDP) plus PMEGP and CGTMSE, the corrected scheme mechanics, and the document checklist that kills most applications.

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31 March 2026 17 min read