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Semicon 2.0 Gazette Notification and What It Means For MSMEs

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.

6 September 2026 · 20 min read Semicon 2.0 MSMEISM 2.0 gazette notificationSemicon 2.0 notification analysis Read report →

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.

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28 August 2026 10 min read read

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.

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20 August 2026 20 min read read

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

DPR preparation, 14 approvals, land, real costs, the compliance stack, and the 2026 MSME Facilitation Bill that lets non-polluting units start first.

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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 barely exists. The nine ancillary industries it depends on, and what breaks.

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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. What that means for Assam's industrial base, and what MSMEs should do.

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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 asks for more Tezpur litchis. Four processing units take shape under MMUY. LGBI cargo grew 15.1%. Demand is ready; supply 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.

Structural logistics failures across Assam, West Bengal and the Siliguri Corridor, with an industrialisation strategy for chips 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 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.

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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.

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.

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31 March 2026 17 min read read