Bihar Budget 2025-26
Bihar Budget 2025-26
- Presented by: Deputy CM & Finance Minister Samrat Chaudhary on 3rd March 2025
- Total Budget: ₹3.17 lakh crore
- ↑ from ₹2.78 lakh crore in 2024–25, increased by Rs 38,169.30 cr (13.69%)
- The size of Bihar Budget increased continuously in the last 5 Years. (UPSC favourite question)
- 5,972 Cr allocated to Saat Nischay 2 in 2025-26
- GSDP: Projected at Rs 10.97 lakh crore (↑ 22% over 2024-25) at Current Price
- Per Capita GSDP 2023-24 at Current Price: Bihar Rs 66,828, India Rs 2,15,935
- Sectors: Highest estimated growth at Constant Price in 2023-24 – Service Sector > Manufacturing > Agriculture
Expenditure
- Total Expenditure: ₹3,16,895 crore ( Rs. 3.17 lakh crore )
- Revenue expenditure: Rs. 2.52 lakh crore (79.52%)
- Capital expenditure: Rs. 64,895 crore (20.48%)
Receipts
- Total Receipts: ₹3,17,095 crore
- Revenue Receipts: ₹2,60,831 crore (2.61 lakh crore)
- Capital Receipts: ₹56,263 crore
- Revenue Surplus: ₹8,831 crore (0.80% of GSDP)
- Fiscal Deficit: ₹32,718 crore (2.98% of GSDP)
- Revised Estimates of 2024-25: 9.2% of GSDP
- FD Target: 3% of GDP
Allocations by Department
- Education Department - 60,964 Crore (19.24%) - Highest allocation
- Rural Development Department
- Health Department
INITIATIVES
Women Empowerment Initiatives
- Establishment of mahila haat (women’s marketplace) in Patna
- Garib Kanya vivah mandap in all 8053 Panchayats
- Women’s special bus service with female drivers, conductors, and trainers
- Pink toilets for women in all districts
- Gym-on-wheels with female trainers in Patna
- 33% reservation for women in Bihar State Road Transport Corporation jobs
- Subsidy for women purchasing e-rickshaws and hostels for working women
- Jeevika Didi entrepreneurship promotion with the help of IIM Kolkata
- Women-managed Religious Tourism Scheme to start on Chhath puja
Health Initiatives
- Bihar Cancer care society to be established
- Cancer hospital in Begusarai
- Mukhyamantri Balika Pratirakshan Yojana – to provide free of cost Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine to girls aged 9-14 to prevent cervical cancer
Migrant Support
- Migration counselling-cum-registration centres in key cities across India
Infrastructure & Transportation
- Greenfield airports in Sultanganj (Bhagalpur), Rajgir (Nalanda) and Raxaul (E. Champaran)
- Development of smaller airports under UDAN scheme
- Smart city - Patna, Nalanda, Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur
- All Municipalities declared ODF (56 ODF+, Patna Water +)
- Industrial Park in Dobhi, Gaya
- Meteorological Centre in Bhagalpur
- Hariharnath Mandir (Sonepur, Saran) to be developed on lines of Kashi Vishwanath Temple
- Archaeological Site to be developed in Lal Pahadi, Lakhisarai
- Bihar ranks first in Saarthi 4.0 (Online registeration, Driving license etc)
Backward Classes Support
- Doubled the scholarship amount for BC, EBC, SC & ST
- SC & ST students Hostel subsidy increased from Rs 1800 to 3600 per month
Farmers
- State govt. will coordinate with NCCF (National Cooperative Consumers Federation) to purchase Arhar, Moong, Urad at MSP
- Cold Storage to be established in all sub-divisions and blocks
- “Tarkari Sudha” stores to be opened at block level by VEGFED and PVCS (Primary Vegetable Cooperative Society) for fair pricing and vegetable marketing
- Bihar Millet Mission to promote millets
- Centre of Excellence: On Coarse grain at Tankuppa (Gaya), Jaggery at Pusa (Samastipur), Betel leaves at Bidupur (Vaishali)
- Kundghat Reservoir Scheme on Bahuar river in Sikandra of Jamui is near to its completion
Environment
- First phase of Hybrid Doppler Weather Radar Network at W. Champaran & Bhagalpur
- Jal Jeevan Hariyali praised at Cop28 Dubai (Cop 29- Baku, Azerbaijan)
- Bihar Forestry college and research institute at Munger
- Rs 100 crore to ‘Bihar Clean Air Transformation Scheme’
- Rs 25 Cr to ‘Bihar Green Development Fund’
- 3rd in National Water Prize 2022
- CATS to Valmiki Tiger Reserve, W. Champaran
- NTCA (National Tiger Conservation Authority) approved Kaimur wildlife sanctuary to be the 2nd Tiger Reserve of Bihar
What Bihar Got from Union Budget (1 Feb, 2025)
- Makhana Board
- National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship & Management
- Greenfield Airports
- West Kosi Canal Project in Mithilanchal