Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Assam: Some Aspects of Size, Growth and Structure

Abstract : The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is the dominant sector in Assam as compared with other North Eastern States of India. It is because 61.48 per cent of MSMEs units concentrated in Assam and the rest 38.52 per cent is located in the rest of the North Eastern States. The objective of the study was to assess the growth and performance of the MSMEs in Assam from the period of 2010-11 to 2017-18. Secondary data were collected from the various government sources for this analysis. The collected data was qualitatively analyzed and presented in tables, charts and figures using Microsoft excel. From the study we found that the growth rate of number of units of MSMEs, employment and investment increases as 3.39 percent, 6.76 percent and 8.83 percent respectively. In this study, compound annual growth rate (CGAR) was used to find out the growth rate of number of units district wise. It is found that Chirang district has the highest growth rate of 40.85 percent and Cachar has recorded negative growth rate of -14.18 percent. Coefficient of variation was also calculated to find out the region wise growth and performance of MSMEs in Assam and we found that North Assam recorded the highest growth while Cachar has recorded the negative growth rate of units.