CITY BUSINESS PLAN

City Business Plan for Muzaffarpur Municipal Corporation
enclaves. About one half of the estate does not have access to continuous power connectivity.
Even for the few hours that power is available, there are frequent power cuts which significantly
affect typical manufacturing industries. As a matter of fact, about 20 percent of the units that have
commenced operations (till date) have wound-up. The option of strengthening existing industrial
infrastructure through State Government Schemes, or through linkages with Public Private
Partnership (PPP) schemes (such as the Industrial Infrastructure Development or IID) scheme of
the Govt. of India merits serious consideration.
Basic industrial infrastructure:
The industrial estate in the region suffers from power and water logging constraints. Nevertheless,
parts of the estate are relatively better-off in these fronts. There is over 35 acres of land available
for new units in the estate. The land in the estate as well as other land within and beyond the
municipal limits may be utilized by start-ups. There is evidently no municipal land of an acre in
stretch (in one location) which may be utilized for purposes of establishing common facilities.
Related and supporting enterprises and institutions:
The litchi value-chain alone has the benefit of access to necessary supporting enterprises like cold
stores as well as supporting technical institutions (for inputs in pre and post-harvest management)
like the Litchi Research Institute. However, value-chains such as the lac bangle, textiles and
garments (cloth), jewelry, furniture etc. suffer on this front. Basic training and testing lab
facilities, modern packaging units etc. are in dearth.
Demand Conditions:
The city is well connected by rail and road and the market connectivity is relatively strong to
facilitate movement of goods into and from the city. The town is connected by NH-28, NH-57 and
NH-102. The road network within the city is managed by three departments namely the
Muzaffarpur Municipal Corporation (MMC), Public Works Department (PWD) and the District
Council (DC). Muzaffarpur city also falls on the Samastipur-Motihari railway section and is
therefore an important railway junction. In fact this station handles more than 10,000 passengers a
day. Also, the Ramdayal Nagar railway station is situated to the South of town on the
Muzaffarpur-Hajipur Railway line in ward 31. The Narayanpur-Anand railway station is located
near an industrial estate outside MMC area and facilitates the transportation of bulk goods. The
nearest airport is at Patna, a three hour drive from the city. However, if the expected level of local
economic development takes place, the existing airport of |Muzaffarpur itself, could be made
operational in the long term and commencement of regular air services will in itself give a boost
to LED. The commercial segment of the city (also) comprises a strong network of traders with
strong market connectivity. The circumstances reflect a relatively strong local demand condition
in the light of the city‟s population of 467,007 persons (2011) and market connectivity country
wide, as also scope for exports through the airport at Patna and seaport at Kolkata. In addition, the
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