Assam is lining up investments worth more than ₹1 lakh crore in its power sector, with projects expected to generate over 10,000 MW of electricity and create more than 30,000 jobs, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday, 17 August 2026. The plans fall under the state’s Advantage Assam 2.0 investment initiative.
The Chief Minister said the government is working to clear bottlenecks holding up investment proposals and is tracking projects individually so that approvals do not stall inside the administrative system. He set out the numbers in a post on the social media platform X while reviewing the state’s broader investment pipeline.
“Just reviewed the ₹5 lakh crore investment pipeline from #AdvantageAssam2 in 2025. 75% is now at various stages of firming up. Today’s focus was on clearing bottlenecks. No proposal gets lost in the system. We track every single one,” Sarma said in his post.
The power-sector push forms part of Assam’s stated ambition to become an energy-surplus state and a green energy hub for the Northeast. Earlier in 2026, the state government had outlined a target of 8,457 MW of generation capacity and unveiled a green energy roadmap running to tens of thousands of crores in investment, alongside plans to expand substations, grid capacity and transmission lines.
Employment generation has been a recurring theme in the state’s investment messaging, with satellite town development and industrial projects also flagged as job creators. The 30,000 jobs cited in the latest review are tied specifically to the power-sector investments under the Advantage Assam 2.0 framework.
The Chief Minister said the focus of the latest review was on identifying and removing hurdles so that proposals can move towards implementation. The pace at which the flagged projects reach financial closure and construction will determine how quickly the projected generation capacity and jobs materialise.
