The Bihar Ease of Doing Business Act, 2026 establishes a framework for simplifying regulatory processes, reducing compliance burdens, and ensuring transparent, predictable, and time-bound approvals for enterprises across Bihar. The Act aims to replace permission-based regulation with rule-based governance and permission by exception.
The following has been provided:
The Act applies throughout Bihar and will come into force from the date of its publication in the State Government’s Official Gazette. It covers a broad range of enterprises, including manufacturing, services, commercial, business, real estate, professional, institutional, educational and healthcare activities.
The Act introduces key principles of permission by exception, one-state principle, proportionality and risk-based regulation, reliance and certainty, transparency and predictability, and presumption of grant on expiry of prescribed timelines.
A Single Window System will function as the unified online platform for submission, processing and tracking of applications, approvals, grievances and appeals. The Executive Committee is required to monitor turnaround times and ensure time-bound processing of approvals.
The Act establishes an Ease of Doing Business Council, an Executive Committee and a Secretariat known as “Invest Bihar” to oversee implementation, coordinate approvals and facilitate investors.
The Secretariat may issue deemed approvals where a competent authority fails to decide an approval application within 30 days or the applicable statutory timeline. However, deemed approval does not apply to specified areas including environmental protection, forest and wildlife conservation, pollution control, hazardous substances, fire safety, public health and labour welfare, unless the concerned law expressly permits it.
At the district level, District Empowered Committees (DECs) will facilitate in-principle approvals, monitor competent authorities and ensure time-bound grant of approvals. In specified cases, the DEC may overrule an administrative decision of a competent authority concerning approvals under the Act, while it cannot review or set aside judicial or quasi-judicial orders.
An appeal against an order of the DEC may be filed before the Executive Committee within 30 days, and the appeal is required to be disposed of within 30 days of filing.
Please refer to the document attached below for more details.
