The Bihar cabinet on Tuesday (August 19, 2025) approved the construction of two five star hotels at Rajgir in the Nalanda district and a five star resort in Vaishali district in PPP mode to provide better and quality accommodation to the tourists visiting these places.

The decision was taken during the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in which a total of 16 decisions were approved.

As per the tourism department’s proposal, two five-star hotels will be constructed on 10 acres of land near Mela Maidan in Rajgir in Nalanda district while a five-star resort will be developed on 10 acres of land at recently inaugurated Buddha Samyak Darshan Museum-cum-Memorial Stupa, Cabinet Secretariat Department’s Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) S. Siddharth said in a post Cabinet briefing.

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The two hotels and a resort will be constructed and operated in accordance with the provisions of Infrastructure Development Enabling (Amendment) Act, 2023, he said and added that the land will be provided on “lease” to the private developer which will carry out the construction of hotels on the said land.