Electricity consumers Big relief…Electricity will be 40 paise cheaper per unit

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To provide cheap electricity to the electricity consumers of the state, the state government will spend Rs 15,995 crore as grant in the current financial year 2025-26.

This grant was approved in the state cabinet meeting held on Friday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. As soon as the grant was announced, domestic consumers in rural areas have got a big relief. 1.25 crore consumers of rural domestic and BPL category (Kutir Jyoti) consuming more than 50 units in a month will now get 40 paise per unit cheaper electricity.

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Whereas more than 63 lakh consumers of the state having smart prepaid meters will get 25 paise per unit cheaper electricity. Till now, consumers having smart meters were getting a discount of three percent on recharge. Now domestic consumers having smart meters in rural areas will get 65 paise per unit cheaper electricity.

To provide cheap electricity to consumers, the state government will spend 652 crores more than the previous financial year. In the financial year 2024-25, the state government had given a grant of 15 thousand 343 crores. In the financial year 2025-26, under the Chief Minister’s Electricity Consumer Assistance Scheme, the government has decided to spend 15 thousand 995 crores to provide electricity at a cheap rate to 2.13 crore electricity consumers of different categories of the state. The government will spend four percent more amount in the grant head than the last financial year.

It is worth noting that since the financial year 2017-18, Bihar Electricity Regulatory Commission has been fixing non-subsidized electricity rates. After this, the government announces the subsidy. The government will give a subsidy of Rs 8130 crore to domestic consumers, Rs 1349 crore to non-domestic consumers, Rs 5055 crore in agriculture and irrigation service head, Rs 223 crore to small industries and Rs 105 crore to big industries.

The rate of electricity for 0 to 50 units among rural domestic consumers was Rs 2.45 per unit, which is still the same. Energy, Planning and Development Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav said that electricity rates are high due to increasing cost in production, transmission and distribution. But the state government gives subsidy to provide cheap electricity to consumers. The effort is to provide affordable and continuous electricity to every household, so that Bihar’s development gets a boost.

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