He was 80 and leaves behind a son and two daughters. His wife Prabina Saikia predeceased him.

Saikia, editor of Assamese literary magazine Goriyoshi published by The Assam Tribune group of newspapers, was instrumental in organizing the first Guwahati Book Fair in 1984, when he was the secretary of the Publication Board, Asom and the fair has become an annual feature now. Saikia received the Sahitya Akademi award in 1995 for his book Maharathi.

Zubeen the sensational music talent budding in the fertile soils of Assam, was supported and guided by numerous personalities in bollywood in his endeavour to get a foothold there .Artists like Anu Malik, Pritam, Director Mahesh Bhatt, etc are his alma maters who in the due course contributed in many ways during those struggle days. The concert will be a perfect platform for Zubeen to thank those people in an elegant manner.

According to the president, Mr. Gakul Ch Dev Goswami, the last year AROHAN organised 28 public meetings, 13 seminars/workshops, 57 sreat corner meeting or streat plays, 4 medical camps and awareness programmes against pollution, deforestration, drugs, women murder etc, child labours. 10 research works has been completed by its prominent resource persons and researchers, namely Dr Jaykanta Rabha, MBBS, Mr.