Bihar Elections 2025: How NDA, Mahagathbandhan manifestos compare on jobs, women, infra and more

• Create over 1 crore government jobs through government and private opportunities, skill census, and mega centres in every district.
• Developing mega skill centres in every district into global skilling centres to create a Global Skill Hub in Bihar. 

• A law to be passed within 20 days of forming the government, guaranteeing at least one government job for one member of every family in the state
• Job distribution process to begin within 20 months
• The Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for government employees would be restored
• Abolition of examination and form fees for competitive tests
• Provision of free travel for candidates to and frome exam centres
• Preference for Bihar residents in employment through a domicile policy
• Regularising contractual and outsourced employees

• Providing financial assistance of up to ₹2 lakh to women under the Mukhyamantri Mahila Rozgar Yojana for starting their businesses. 
• Creating over 1 crore Lakhpati Didis (women earning over ₹1 lakh per annum). 
• Launch Mission Crorepati to help successful women entrepreneurs scale their ventures. 

• Under the Mai-Bahin Maan Yojana, women would receive a financial aid of ₹2,500 per month for 5 years
• Under the Jeevika Didis scheme, all Jeevika community mobilisers would be made permanent government employees with a monthly salary of ₹30,000. They would also get debt relief, a monthly allowance for additional work, and interest-free loans for 2 years. 
• Establishing a women's college in every sub-division and new degree colleges in 136 blocks that currently lack one.

• Introducing the Karpoori Thakur Kisan Samman Nidhi to provide farmers with an annual benefit of ₹9,000 (₹3,000 per crop season)
• Ensure minimum support price (MSP) for all key crops and open procurement centres at every panchayat level
• The manifesto pledges ₹1 lakh crore investment in agricultural infrastructure, including irrigation, warehouses, and food processing units
• Aim to double agricultural exports through the Made in Bihar scheme
• Launch the Bihar Milk Mission and Fisheries Mission to boost the rural economy

• Raising the daily wage under MGNREGA from ₹255 to ₹300 and doubling the total days of employment promised from 100 to 200
• Reviving the local market/mandi system and restoring the APMC Act
• Guaranteeing the procurement of all crops at the Minimum Support Price (MSP)

• Provide up to ₹10 lakh assistance for EBC category students for higher education
• Provide ₹10 lakh financial assistance to professional groups belonging to the extremely backward classes (EBCs) category
• Form a high-level committee, headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, to assess the socio-economic conditions of EBCs and recommend empowerment strategies

• Increase the reservation for EBCs in panchayats and urban bodies from 20 per cent to 30 per cent
• Increase in reservation for SC/STs from 16 per cent to 20 per cent
• Bring in the 'Most Backward Classes Atrocity Prevention Act'
• A scholarship scheme to fund 200 SC/ST students for higher studies abroad every year

• Set up 10 new industrial parks and a modern manufacturing unit/factory in every district
• Establish 100 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) parks and support more than 50,000 cottage industries
• The manifesto also laid out plans to set up chipset, semiconductor, and manufacturing parks, along with a defense corridor
• Attract investments of ₹50 lakh crore in 5 years to build Bihar into a global backend and tech hub

• ₹5 lakh interest-free assistance for 5 years for traditional occupational groups such as barbers, potters, carpenters, gardeners, blacksmiths, and cobblers
• Proposal for IT parks and Special Economic Zones
• Development of dairy-based, agro-based, food processing and tourism ventures

• Implement the Bihar Gati Shakti Master Plan with 7 new expressways, 3,600 km modern rail tracks, as well as Amrit Bharat and NaMo Rapid Rail services
• Introducing metro train services in 4 more cities
• Build a new greenfield airport near Patna and upgrade existing airports like Darbhanga, Bhagalpur, and Purnea to international standards

• Building an Educational City spanning 2,000 acres
• Constructing 5 new expressways
• New industry clusters were also proposed

Education

• Ensure free education from KG to PG for children from poor families
• Set up 'Education Cities' with AI training and digital labs
• Financial aid of ₹2,000 per month for SC/ST students pursuing higher education
• Set up residential schools for SC/ST students in every division

• Abolishing exam fees for competitive tests and providing free travel to and from exam centres
• Opening women's colleges in every sub-division and new degree colleges in 136 blocks

• Provide free treatment up to ₹5 lakh (as part of the 'Panchamrit guarantees for the poor)
• Establishing a world-class medicity
• Set up one medical college in each district