Named Entity Recognition (NER) is crucial when it comes to taking care of information extraction, question-answering, document summarization and machine translation which are undoubtly the important Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. This work is a detailed analysis of our previously developed NER system with more emphasis on how individual features will contribute towards the recognition of person, location and organization named entities and how these features in different combinations affect the performance measure of the system. In addition to these, we have also evaluated the behaviour of the features with the increase in training and test corpus. Since this system is based on supervised learning, we need to have a large parts of speech tagged and named entity tagged Training Corpus as well as a parts of speech tagged Test Corpus. The maximum value of performance measure of the overall system is obtained when the training corpus is of size with 5000 words and the amount of named entities present in the test corpus is 50 and the values obtained are 95% in terms of precision, 84% in terms of recall and 89% in terms of F1-measure. This work will add a new dimension in the usage of features for recognition of ENAMEX tags in Assamese corpus. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.