According to media reports, Hazarika's body will reach Guwahati's Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport via a Jet Airways flight around 11.30am on Monday.
His coffin will be taken to his ancestral home at Nizarapara. From there it will be taken to Judges Field ground where it will be kept till Tuesday for his fans and well-wishers to pay their last tributes to the legendary singer.
The funeral will take place at Cachal on Tuesday afternoon.
Hazarika died at a Mumbai hospital on Saturday evening. He was 85.
Hazarika breathed his last around 4.30pm, according to a hospital spokesperson.
"It was a multi-organ failure. The end came around 4.30 pm, " Jayanta Saha, chief PRO at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, told reporters.
Hazarika was suffering from respiratory and kidney failure.
The singer was undergoing dialysis at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital after both his kidneys failed. He was admitted to the hospital on June 29.
His condition deteriorated since October 23.
As a singer, Hazarika was known for his deep baritone voice and crisp diction; as a lyricist, he was known for poetic compositions and parables that touch on a wide range of themes ranging from the erotic to social and political commentary; and as a composer for his use of folk music with a touch of the contemporary.
In addition to his native Assamese, Hazarika sang in many other Indic languages, including Bengali and Hindi, many of these the translations of originally Assamese-composed songs.