25 New Mills: Nitish Kumar Launches Bihar's Ambitious 5-Year Economic Overhaul

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Chaired his first cabinet meeting of the new term on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, and approved a sweeping 10-point agenda designed to create one crore jobs, revive agro-industry, and position the state as eastern India’s leading technology hub over the next five years. The decisions, described by officials as the blueprint for a “new age economy,” include establishing 25 new sugar mills, reviving nine closed ones, building 11 new townships, and launching ambitious projects in defense, semiconductors, fintech, and artificial intelligence. The cabinet also cleared the inaugural session of the newly elected Bihar Legislative Assembly to begin on December 1, where Nitish Kumar will seek a fresh vote of confidence.

A cornerstone of the plan is the revival and expansion of Bihar’s sugar sector, with the cabinet approving 25 greenfield mills alongside the restart of nine shuttered units, a move expected to boost rural employment and farmer incomes in a state with vast sugarcane acreage. Urban development received equal emphasis, with 11 new planned townships sanctioned across all nine divisional headquarters plus Sitamarhi and Sonepur, aimed at decongesting cities and creating modern satellite and services hubs. Chief Secretary Pratyaya Amrit told reporters the government is leveraging improved power supply, water management, and industrial corridors to attract large-scale private investment.

To catapult Bihar into the technology forefront, the cabinet green-lit a defense corridor, a semiconductor manufacturing park, global capability centers, a mega tech city, and a dedicated fintech city. A high-level committee chaired by the chief secretary and including national and international experts will submit a detailed roadmap within six months. The Bihar Artificial Intelligence Mission was also approved to harness AI for urban beautification, governance, and economic growth, while the government will formally solicit policy inputs from prominent Bihar-origin entrepreneurs worldwide to shape the state into a “global back-end hub” and “global workplace.”

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Youth employment emerged as the centerpiece of the vision, with the government committing to generate one crore government and private-sector jobs between 2025 and 2030, building on the 50 lakh opportunities created under the previous Saat Nischay-2 scheme. Officials described Bihar’s young demographic as its biggest asset, asserting that channeling this workforce effectively could make the state India’s fastest-growing economy. The cabinet’s decisions signal an acceleration of industrial momentum that has gathered pace in recent years, with Nitish Kumar’s administration emphasizing completion-oriented governance and renewed vigor in its latest term.

As the newly elected assembly convenes next week with pro-tem speaker Narendra Narayan Yadav administering oaths, the vote of confidence will formally launch what the government is calling Bihar’s decisive push toward industrialization, technological leadership, and mass employment. With infrastructure fundamentals now in place and a clear five-year target of one crore jobs, the state is positioning itself for a transformative leap that officials say will redefine its economic identity by 2030.

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