Assam to Offer ‘Top-Up’ Incentives for Electronics Makers: CM

• Assam adds incentives for electronics manufacturers beyond central schemes.
• Jagiroad is developing as an electronic city with Tata’s semiconductor plant.
• The state promotes local talent to join the growing electronics sector.

Electronics manufacturers and component producers who set up shop in Assam will benefit from more incentives than those available through the Union government, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on May 26, 2025. He discussed this with semiconductor representatives and the media in Delhi, and plans to similar meetings in Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru.

Assam will actually be receiving support the Union government's Uttar Poorva Transformative Industrialisation Scheme to give companies access to various schemes in order to make the process entering the state easier.

The government is currently redeveloping Jagiroad, which was previously an industrial site located on National Highway 37, into an electronic city. In that location the Tata semiconductor plant will do packaging and testing and have foreign companies supplying parts and servicing.

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One of Assam's electronics policies is to bring the local talent home to work in the electronics sector to not only build the industry, but provide jobs for the region.

Mr. Sarma said, "We’re negotiating a big loan from the Asian Development Bank so that the city can fulfill all the requirements".

"We have a very good human resource base because we have an IIT in Guwahati, an IIIT in Guwahati, a good network of engineering colleges, and the Government of India has also declared the National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) a deemed university", he added.