Gujarat subsidy calculator: every incentive, one estimate

It uses the rates, caps and ceilings in the VGIP 2026 scheme GRs of 8 and 25 September 2026, the taluka classification GR of 8 September 2026, the Gujarat Electricity Duty Act, 1958 and the customs rules for EPCG and MOOWR. The final amount depends on the eligible fixed capital investment the department verifies and on your actual loan and power use, so treat the result as a planning estimate, not a sanction.

By the taluka classification GR of 8 September 2026, which places 130 talukas in Category A and 138 in Category B. Pick your taluka and the calculator applies its category. If a project spans more than one taluka, the taluka with the largest share of the project land decides.

Yes. Under VGIP 2026 a unit can take any one of the three or any combination, but together they cannot exceed the combined ceiling for its category — for example 45% of EFCI for a general-sector MSME in Category A — and each year is limited by an annual ceiling with no carry-forward.

Both VGIP 2026 scheme GRs say eligible units get exemption from electricity duty as applicable under the Gujarat Electricity Duty Act, 1958. It is claimed separately and sits outside the combined ceiling, so the calculator adds it on top.

It includes the customs benefits decided when you import. If you export, imported machinery goes under EPCG — duty waived against exports of six times the duty saved within six years — and imported raw material for export production comes in duty-free under Advance Authorisation or MOOWR. If you sell in India, MOOWR defers the duty on both with no export obligation; the calculator shows that deferred duty separately, because it is paid later rather than saved. It also lists other central schemes that may fit your sector. State and central incentives together cannot exceed your eligible fixed capital investment.

If you do not know your bill or units yet, enter the sanctioned load or contract demand in kVA. The calculator assumes two shifts — 416 running hours a month at a 0.6 load factor and 0.9 power factor — and energy charges of ₹8 a unit, so 500 kVA becomes about 1,12,320 units and ₹8.99 lakh a month. A contract demand of 100 kVA or more is treated as HT supply, which pays 15% electricity duty; below that it is LT at 10%.

An expansion must add at least 50% to the existing gross fixed capital investment excluding land, with at least 60% of the new investment in plant and machinery, raise capacity by 50% and follow at least 75% utilisation in one of the previous three years. Only the extra power consumption on a sub-meter earns power tariff subsidy. Inside an SEZ only a new unit gets the electricity duty exemption; an SEZ expansion does not.

Everything except the taluka and the investment is optional. Leave the loan, interest rate or tenure blank and the calculator assumes a term loan of 70% of EFCI at 9.5% over 7 years; leave electricity blank and power tariff subsidy and electricity duty wait until you add a bill, units or sanctioned load. Every assumption is listed under the result.

Yes. Mega (from ₹1,000 crore of investment and 250 direct jobs) and Ultra Mega (from ₹10,000 crore and 3,000 direct jobs) are for thrust and selected thrust sectors, with periods of 10 to 12 years, absolute yearly caps of ₹750 crore and ₹1,250 crore, and the option of a customised package from the High Powered Committee. The calculator assumes the jobs test is met once the investment crosses the threshold and says so in its notes.