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      <title><![CDATA[Ground Report: SEMICON India 2026, and the Suppliers I Went Looking For]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Notes from three days at Yashobhoomi. The household names came for the photo op. The real ecosystem was in the smaller booths: gases, valves, coatings, and service outfits that decide whether India's chip bet ships.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Policy Explorer: Every Assam and Central Scheme, One Search]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A searchable, fully sourced map of every Assam and central government policy and scheme a manufacturer might qualify for, from IIPA 2019 to PMEGP to MCGS-MSME.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gear Shift #9: NITI Aayog Makes It All About People, PepsiCo Opens in Nalbari, and NRL Explains Where the Bamboo Ethanol Plant Actually Is]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NITI Aayog's ten-year semiconductor roadmap asks for a lakh more chip engineers and $135-180 billion of capital, PepsiCo opens its first Northeast plant at Nalbari, Assam's cabinet frees 1,174 bighas for industrial estates, and more]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Upgrade Your MSME's Standards For Anchor Buyers With Vendor Readiness Assessment]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A consent-first, evidence-based pre-screening for MSMEs positioning for anchor buyers. Here is what the intake asks, why every field is there, and what happens after you hit submit.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Semiconductor Price Briefing: Q3 2026]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bhaskar Sarma]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Retail DDR at $3.96/GB after a 2x jump into 2025; NAND cheapest $0.088/GB and still climbing. What the memory supercycle looks like in public annual data.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gear Shift #8: The MSME Payment Law Gets Presidential Assent, India's Component Scheme Crosses ₹69,548 Crore, and Assam Doubles Down on Japan]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MSME payments get a boost, MeitY's component scheme crosses ₹69,548 crore across 106 projects, Assam and JETRO deepen semiconductor and clean-energy talks]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your District Doesn't Change Your Assam Factory Subsidy]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[IIPA 2019 sets subsidy rates by enterprise size, not district. A Rs 5 crore Small unit gets the same SGST cap in Kamrup Metro and Dhemaji.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Assam Subsidy Calculator, Rebuilt for a World Without UNNATI]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bhaskar Sarma]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[The Nitisagar Industrial Incentive Estimator v2.1.0, rebuilt around IIPA 2019, PMEGP and CGTMSE now that UNNATI registration has closed.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Nitisagar Handles Your Data]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How Nitisagar Advisory handles client data today, what we are building next, and why a small firm can be more disciplined about it than most.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gear Shift #7: Kaynes' Entire PCB Line Sells Out, Parliament Mandates Early MSME Payments, and L&T Semiconductor Picks Assam's Jagiroad Plant]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bhaskar Sarma]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[India chip policy fortnightly: a PCB shortage books out Kaynes' new line, India's OSAT capacity sells out, and L&T backs Assam's Jagiroad plant.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Certification Stack: Every Approval a Northeast India MSME Actually Needs]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Udyam, BIS, ZED, ISO, pollution consent, IATF. What each certification costs, who requires it, and where founders lose the most time. Mapped tier by tier.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gear Shift #6: Semicon 2.0 Lands ₹1.27 Lakh Crore, Seoul Semiconductor Shops for a State, and Assam Rewrites Its MSME Rulebook]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bhaskar Sarma]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[India chip policy fortnightly: Semicon 2.0 clears Cabinet at ₹1.27 lakh crore, Seoul Semiconductor courts three states, Assam rewrites MSME law.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vikram-1 Reached Orbit Today. What Does Assam Do with That?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Skyroot put India in the private orbital club. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are already positioned. Where does Assam fit in the chain?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[₹2.85 Lakh Crore, Six Sectors: What the Assam Budget 2026-27 Actually Commits to Industry]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A scheme-by-scheme reading of the Assam Budget 2026-27: the ₹2.85 lakh crore outlay, six priority sectors, and what industry actually gets.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Assam Got From The Japan Summit, And What It Can Still Get]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two named Assam projects came out of a ₹1 lakh crore summit: a semiconductor research tie-up and a biogas plant. What each one actually means.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gear Shift #5: ISM 2.0 Heads to Cabinet, Assam's Three-Fab Ambition, and India's Rs 30 Lakh Chip Lab]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bhaskar Sarma]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[India chip policy fortnightly: ISM 2.0 clears the EFC, Assam signs two more semiconductor MOUs, and IIT Bombay builds a student chip fab.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Japan's PM Just Cancelled Guwahati. But Assam Can Still Join In At The Delhi Tea Party]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Takaichi is the second Japanese PM in seven years to skip Assam. The five investments that did not make the headlines, and what they are worth.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Assam's Electronics Ambition Has a 180-Day Problem: The Approval Sequence Rivals in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka Have Already Solved]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Electronics manufacturers in Assam face 14 factory clearances and 3 product compliances, with power connections alone taking up to six months.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The TEFR Is the Document AIDC Actually Reads. Six Ways It Gets Rejected.]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AIDC treats the TEFR as the only filter that matters at Stage 1. The six failure modes, and what a passing document actually contains.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How UNNATI 2024 Changes the Game for Assam MSMEs]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A breakdown of what the ₹10,037 crore scheme means for manufacturers in Kamrup and Morigaon districts, and why most are still leaving money unclaimed.]]></description>
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