Bihar Rural Transformation Project (WB-P512959)

Regions
  • South Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • India
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Specific Location
Bihar
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Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
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Project Status
Proposed
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Bank Risk Rating
A
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Voting Date
Dec 3, 2026
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of India - Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society
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Sectors
  • Education and Health
  • Finance
  • Industry and Trade
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Investment Type(s)
Loan
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 218.84 million
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Project Cost (USD)
$ 49,648.03 million
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Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Sep 14, 2026

Disclosed by Bank Nov 4, 2025

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Project Description
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According to the Bank’s website, the Bihar Rural Transformation Project (BRTP, P512959) is a INR 3000 crore (US$312.5M) operation, financed through an IBRD loan of INR 2100 crore (US$218.8M) and INR 900 crore (US$93.7M) in Government of Bihar counterpart funding. The Project Development Objective is to support more and better-paid jobs, and improve health and nutrition outcomes. Implemented by the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS), popularly known as JEEViKA, the project builds on nearly two decades of World Bank engagement in Bihar and leverages JEEViKA's network of 10 million Self-Help Group members to drive a more ambitious agenda of market-oriented rural economic transformation.

The project is structured around four components.

Component A integrates smallholder producers into value chains through productive partnerships with private sector off-takers and builds an ecosystem of three million rural enterprises, with a focus on graduating enterprises from own-account to hired worker status.

Component B establishes three state-level apex institutions, a Marketing Federation, an Enterprise Anchor Facility, and a Shared Service Organization, and strengthens community institutions as platforms for health, nutrition, and climate resilience.

Component C addresses financing and digital market failures through matching grants, a blended finance instrument, insurance products, and an AI-enabled Bihar Rural Stack.

Component D covers project management, monitoring and evaluation, and knowledge partnerships.

The project is expected to support approximately 773,000 more and better-paid jobs, benefit 3 million entrepreneurs, and reach 1.2 million women and 170,000 children through a community resilience and convergence model in 200 Cluster Level Federations.

Early Warning System Project Analysis
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Environmental risk is rated Substantial. BRTP supports a diverse portfolio of interventions across services, agri food value chains, and allied rural enterprises, resulting in a broad environmental risk profile that includes resource use, waste and wastewater management, air emissions, chemical and hazardous materials handling, food safety, biosecurity, biodiversity impacts, and broader governance and compliance risks associated with market-facing enterprises and supply chains. These risks are compounded by institutional capacity constraints arising from several structural weaknesses and the paradigm shift from compliance-focused implementation to more proactive, market-facing environmental management and governance.

The Project’s social risk is rated as moderate. The key social risks are: (a) potential elite capture of project benefits; (b) inadequate representation of the poorest and most vulnerable groups, particularly women and tribal communities, in sub-project related decision making; (c) labor and working conditions, (d) occupational and community health and safety, (e) worker skill gaps, (f) maintenance of health and hygiene standards and infection control across different agriculture, food processing and livestock related value chains, (g) weak grievance redressal mechanisms, and (h) possible restrictions on land use and involuntary resettlement impacts affecting non-titleholders during infrastructure development.

Investment Description
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Total Project Cost: US$ 49648.03 million
IBRD Commitment: US$ 218.84 million


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CONTACT POINT - World Bank

Task Team Leader: Shantanu Kumar
Title: Agriculture Economist
Email: skumar42@worldbank.org

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