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An Ensemble system is a better choice to incorporate the linguistic features of a language and leverage the benefits of various types of POS taggers. In this work, we present our experiment of developing an ensemble tagger for Assamese, a low-resource, morphologically rich scheduled language of India, spoken by more than 15 million people. Despite the success of modern neural-network-based models in sequence tagging tasks, it has yet to receive attention in developing tasks such as POS in a resource-poor language such as Assamese. We develop a POS tagging model based on the BiLSTM-CRF architecture with a corpus of 404k tokens. We cover several word embeddings during training. Among all the experiments, the top two POS tagging models achieve tagging F1 scores of 0.746 and 0.745. We observe that the DL-based taggers are not able to achieve decent accuracy. It may be due to the inability to capture the linguistic features of the language or due to comparatively less annotated data. 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