Bihar State Infrastructure Development Enabling Act, 2006.

This Act is enacted to provide for the rapid development of physical and social infrastructure and attract private sector participation in the designing, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of infrastructure projects and provide a comprehensive legislation for reducing administrative and procedural delays.
An Infrastructure Development Authority shall be established. Powers of the Infrastructure Development Authority include: to grant any clearance or permission required for any project; inspect, visit, review and monitor any project and its implementation, execution, operation and management; be responsible for the planned development of the industrial area and will prepare related master plan and provide incentive to industries in those area; have powers of land allotment for industrial area development or for any area development, removal of any type of encroachment on the lands, and to cancel the allotments; etc. The Government shall establish a fund to be called the "Infrastructure Projects Fund" and shall contribute a sum of Rs.1000 lakhs to the fund. The Infrastructure Development Authority shall be entitled to levy Polluter Charges for pollution of the environment on the Developer, if the Developer pollutes the environment and/or does not adhere to the specified mitigation measures as provided in the Concession Agreement. The Act further makes provisions, inter alia, for: infrastructure project delivery process, generic risks disclosure and its allocation and treatment, offences and paneities, etc.