The research to make the call on Northeast India: gazette-level policy detail, vendor readiness benchmarks and sector intelligence, so you're deciding on evidence, not a sales pitch.
One of the few Indian clusters that grew deep without a national champion on top of it. How the state, a water crisis, and 10,000 small foundries did it over forty years, and what Assam can copy.
The 31 August gazette set the rates. The 16 September guidelines set the terms: when the capex clock starts, what counts as capex, how the money moves, and what a promoter signs up to for years after the plant opens.
Semicon 2.0's 16 September guidelines read against the gazette: approval clock, eligible capex, No-Lien Account payouts, lock-ins, and what it means for Assam.
About 70% of a modern Toyota is not built by Toyota. It is built by a web of small firms held together by an arrangement Japan calls the vertical keiretsu. How Toyota built that base over fifty years, and what Assam can copy.
How Toyota's vertical keiretsu turned a family loom company into the world's deepest supplier base, and six things a state government in Assam can actually copy. The first in a Nitisagar series on how industrial ecosystems get built.
The 31 August gazette notification sets capital floors from ₹50 crore to ₹20,000 crore across ten categories. This report maps every floor against the revised MSME definition, and also checks what's in it for Assam.
Semicon 2.0's gazette notification, category by category: capital floors, fiscal support rates, which ones a Micro, Small or Medium enterprise can clear, and what it means for Assam.
The first public tracker of what India actually pays for its semiconductor imports, from ICs to photoresists.
India's semiconductor import costs in 2026: IC unit values, wafer import prices, photoresist costs, customs duty rates, and the global memory supercycle's impact on India's input bill.
Japan and Assam share the hazard profile: fault lines under the industrial belt, monsoon or typhoon floods across the plain, alluvial ground that liquefies under an earthquake. But Japan is an industrial superpower, thanks in part to rigorous engineering discipline. Some insights for Assam to replicate
Japan's 1981 seismic code, the JBDPA carbon-fibre retrofit, and Cabinet Office BCM guidelines, turned into an engineering playbook for Assam.
14 Approvals, 6 Departments, and the Self-Declaration Law That Changes the Sequence
DPR preparation, 14 approvals, land, real costs, the compliance stack, and the 2020 Act's self-declaration exemption that lets non-polluting units start first.
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 barely exists. The nine ancillary industries it depends on, and what breaks.
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. What that means for Assam's industrial base, and what MSMEs should do.
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 asks for more Tezpur litchis. Four processing units take shape under MMUY. LGBI cargo grew 15.1%. Demand is ready; supply is not.
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.
Structural logistics failures across Assam, West Bengal and the Siliguri Corridor, with an industrialisation strategy for chips and agri-processing.
What AIDC actually reads, the 6 fatal numbers most MSMEs get wrong, and how to pass Stage 1 on the first try.
Most Assam MSME factory applications stall at AIDC Stage 1 over the same document. DSCR, break-even, capacity ramp, and the six fatal flaws.
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.
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.
UNNATI 2024 registration is closed and NEIDS 2017 shut in 2022. The incentive stack still open to new Assam MSME applicants, and how to claim it.