Bihar Textile Land Conversion Waiver

Under incentive 9 of the Bihar Textile & Leather Policy, 2022, textile and leather units falling in Category A and Category B are fully exempted from the land conversion fees that fall due when agricultural land is diverted to industrial use.

For a promoter setting up a plant on agricultural land in Bihar, this does away with one of the statutory charges payable upfront. The relief takes the form of a waiver, not a cash disbursement, and therefore carries no fixed rupee figure — what a unit saves is exactly the conversion fee that its parcel would otherwise attract.

The Department of Industries, Government of Bihar administers the exemption through the policy's usual application process.

1. Register the unit with the Department of Industries under the Bihar Textile & Leather Policy, 2022. 2. File an application with the revenue authority for conversion of the agricultural parcel's land use. 3. Through the Bihar single window portal, submit the exemption request, quoting the relevant policy clause and attaching the land records together with the unit's registration. 4. The conversion is taken up for processing with the fee waived.