Patna: Giving a big relief to the common people, the Bihar government has decided to provide 125 units of free electricity every month. This has been approved in the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
This facility will be implemented from August 1, 2025, and its basis will be the electricity consumption of July 2025. That is, if a domestic consumer has used 125 units or less of electricity in July, then he will not have to pay any money on 125 units of electricity every month from August. The name of this scheme is “Mukham Mantri Bijli Upbhokta Sahay Yojana”, which has now been extended. For this, the government has also approved an amount of Rs 3,797 crore to the Bihar State Power Company.
Relief also for those installing solar plants
The state government is not only providing free electricity but is also going to encourage people to use solar energy. Therefore, the cabinet has also decided that the government will provide financial assistance to those who want to install solar panels with a capacity of 1.1 kW or more. Poor and cottage consumers will get full assistance (i.e. they will not have to pay money for installing solar plants). The government will also give some part of the subsidy to other domestic consumers, which will make it easier to install solar panels.
What will be the benefit of this decision?
People will save on electricity bills. More and more people will move towards solar energy. Electricity consumption in the state will be reduced and green energy will be promoted. The government says that this will rapidly increase the use of solar energy in Bihar and the common people will get the benefit of electricity saving and clean energy.
