Patna : NDA govt in Bihar too is going to adopt cheap popularity tactics to win coming assembly elections. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today announced to give 125 units of free electricity to all domestic consumers. This scheme will come into effect from August 1, 2025, i.e. next month itself. This will provide relief to the common people, especially the electricity consumers of rural areas, but will increase the additional financial burden on the government treasury. He also announced to install solar power plants on the roofs of all such consumers .
Announcing this scheme, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that ” We have been providing electricity to everyone at affordable rates since the beginning. Now we have decided that from August 1, 2025, i.e. from the bill of the month of July, all the domestic consumers of the state will not have to pay any money for electricity up to 125 units. This will benefit a total of 1 crore 67 lakh families of the state. We have also decided that in the next three years, after taking consent from all these domestic consumers, they will be given benefits by installing solar power plants on the roofs of their houses or at the nearest public place. ”
He said that ” Under the Kutir Jyoti Yojana, the state government will bear the entire cost of installing solar power plants for the extremely poor families and the government will also provide proper support for the rest. With this, domestic consumers will no longer have to spend up to 125 units of electricity, as well as according to an estimate, up to 10 thousand megawatts of solar energy will be available in the state in the next three years.