What next? What has gone wrong and what needs to be done? How the central schemes have fared in the State based on which the SDG indicators are largelymapped? Whether and how the State Government Schemes and data sources that being mapped with key SDGs have fared? How the State can move bottom up beyond the aspirant category of (0-49) bracket? These are some of the key questions and issues that are and must be appearing challenging for the development stakeholders in the State and the wider community, citizens and others. And how to overcome this? Can this be also linked to the volatile issue of flood in Assam that has been an annual perennial challenge, yet it has been playing a subversive role in enormously affecting the growth and development agenda, and yet a mid and long term sustainable solution has been eluding for a long time. And one of the main issues has been rescue, rehabilitation and livelihood for the displaced communities.

While the State has been confronting the volatile foreigners influx challenge for more than 3 decades, yet a consensual solution at political, social and cultural level has been missing. The greater challenge has emerged has how the State is prepared to deal with a Post National Registrar of Citizen (NRC) update scenario and how this is going to affect and deal with the Assam’s development and growth narrative subsequently.

The skilling ecosystem has undergone a tremendous change in recent times with the Central and State government giving a big push to skilling the existing and next generation and make them skill ready for job, employment, entrepreneurship and enterprise development. The questions that emerges is how sustainable and ground and home based is the approach. What are the critical considerations and factors that shall determine an inclusive and holistic skill based approach for Assam at a time when the State is getting ready to have a Skill Policy and its implementation.