Assam Finance Minister Jayanta Mallabaruah announced a target of creating 2 lakh additional employment opportunities across government departments and the wider public sector ecosystem over the next five years, while tabling the state’s 2026-27 Budget in the Assembly.
The announcement builds on the government’s earlier commitment of one lakh jobs, which it says it has already exceeded. Mallabaruah told the Assembly that more than 1.64 lakh appointments had been made through the State Level Recruitment Commissions over the last five years.
The new jobs will span government departments, universities, medical colleges, statutory bodies, societies, Sixth Schedule Councils and companies with substantial state ownership. A task force headed by the Chief Secretary has been constituted to prepare a recruitment roadmap covering sectors such as police, revenue administration, education, healthcare and forest services.
“The Government had promised one lakh jobs, and we have exceeded that commitment by providing over 1.64 lakh appointments in the last five years. Building on this achievement, we are now entering the next phase of employment generation,” Mallabaruah said in his Budget address.
The Budget also signals a shift toward private-sector-ready skilling, with ₹496 crore earmarked for the state’s Skill, Employment and Entrepreneurship Department. Assam is betting on emerging industries that barely existed in the state a decade ago.
This includes semiconductor manufacturing under the proposed Assam Semiconductor Ecosystem on Manufacturing and Innovation (A-SEMI), developed in partnership with Japan’s JICA at an estimated outlay of ₹1,164 crore. The state is also promoting animation, visual effects and gaming (AVGC-XR), green energy, and foreign-language training for nurses aiming at overseas healthcare employment in markets such as Japan, Germany, the UK and the Gulf.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, addressing a post-Budget press briefing, framed the employment push as going beyond filling existing vacancies. “We will not only fill empty vacancies but also create new ones. Healthcare, education and several other sectors will see new opportunities, and we believe we will achieve the target of 2 lakh employment,” Sarma said.
The employment roadmap will be tracked closely against Assam’s broader industrial push, including new industrial parks planned in every district and the semiconductor and green energy investments outlined in the Budget.
