BIHAR-GOV-014
Bihar Start-up Policy 2017
The amended startup policy that replaced the 2016 policy on the day it was issued. It ran for five years from notification and kept the Rs 10 lakh seed-grant model.
Good to know: The middle instrument in Bihar's startup policy lineage. It repealed the 2016 policy outright; the 2022 policy that followed carried its work forward without repealing it.
Reported figures (0)
Each figure is marked as an official statistic, a government claim or a target
The sources give no numeric figures for this programme.
How it unfolded (3)
Each step as a dated source records it, oldest first
- Programme initiated
The Department of Industries issued the policy as Memo No. 357, repealing Bihar Startup Policy 2016 with effect from the same date.
Government of Bihar, Department of Industries — Bihar Start-up Policy 2017 resolution (Memo No. 357 dated 17.03.2017)
- Programme initiated
The Chief Minister described the amended policy at the 4th Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit and called for rural incubation centres.
The Times of India
- Programme initiated
The state cabinet approved Bihar Start-up Policy 2022, which carries forward work done under this policy.
Government of Bihar, Department of Industries — Bihar Start-up Policy 2022 (Memo No. 1502 dated 27.06.2022)
What's confirmed
4 sourced facts
- Issued as Memo No. 357, Patna, dated 17 March 2017, signed for the Department of Industries, and endorsed to the State Printing Press at Gulzarbagh for publication in a special edition of the Bihar Gazette.
- Clause 13 states: 'Bihar Startup Policy, 2016 has been repealed with effect from dated 17.03.2017.'
- Clause 3 states the policy 'will be effective from the date of Notification and will remain in operation for 5 years'.
- Clause 15 of the 2022 policy states that work done under the 2017 policy is treated as covered by the 2022 policy.
Still to be confirmed
4 open questions
- The gazette publication date. Clause 3 implies validity to around March 2022, but no source states an end date and no notification of expiry or extension was found, so the exact end of the policy period is unknown.
- Whether the 2017 and 2022 policies overlapped or left a gap between them. The 2022 policy's own effective date also depends on a gazette date that has not been found.
- Clause 1.2 of the 2022 policy describes the 2016 policy as 'later amended as Bihar Start-up Policy 2017', which conflicts with this resolution's own 'repealing' language. The 2017 resolution is the stronger instrument on the point.
- How many startups were certified and how much seed funding was disbursed during the 2017 policy period.
Sources (3)
Who reported it, when, and what they cover
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Government of Bihar, Department of Industries — Bihar Start-up Policy 2017 resolution (Memo No. 357 dated 17.03.2017) Official government |
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The Times of India Established news |
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Government of Bihar, Department of Industries — Bihar Start-up Policy 2022 (Memo No. 1502 dated 27.06.2022) Official government |
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