It was a proud moment for the surgeons of Assam that they got an opportunity to host, the 38th Annual conference of the Association of surgeons of India (ASICON), way back in 1978 in Guwahati, even without having had a professional body of the surgical fraternity of Assam at that particular time. This status continued until the year 1989, when Late Prof. Guru Prasad Sarma, after his retirement and Prof. Gyan Chand Jain, of in the Gauhati Medical College, who was also the Joint organizing secretary of the ASICON’78 in Guwahati, took upon themselves, the enormous challenge of motivating the support of the surgical fraternity across the state for the creation of a professional platform for them…