Bihar eyes Rs 50L cr investments in next 5 years

Patna: Bihar Industries Minister Dilip Jaiswal on Monday said the state government aims to attract investments to the tune of Rs 50 lakh crore and generate one crore employment over the next five years. He asserted that industrial development has been accorded top priority under the government’s ‘Saat Nischay’ programme. “A total of 747 investment proposals worth Rs 17,217 crore were received by the department in the 2025-26 financial year, and 317 investors were allotted 404 acres of land through the Bihar Industrial Development Authority,” Jaiswal told reporters here. The Integrated Manufacturing City (IMC) in Gaya Ji, textile and bag manufacturing cluster in Muzaffarpur, mega food park at Damodarpur, multi-modal logistics park and proposed Fintech City in Patna’s Fatuha locality were among the major industrial projects initiated by the department in the last one year, he said.