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Bihar Election 2025: Nitish Kumar Announces Free Electricity For Up To 125 Units

The scheme will benefit about 1 crore 67 lakh families across the state. From 1st August 2025 as follows from the bill of July, all domestic consumers of the state will not have to pay anything, for electricity 125 units.

Before the Bihar election, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pulled off a masterstroke to win over voters for the upcoming polls. The chief minister has announced free electricity up to 125 units for domestic users. This will be applicable from the July billing cycle. The scheme will benefit about 1 crore 67 lakh families across the state.

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In an X post, the Chief Minister said, “We have been providing electricity to everyone at affordable rates from the very beginning. Now we have decided that from August 1, 2025, that is, from the July bill itself, all domestic consumers in 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 in the state. We have also decided that in the next three years, with the consent of all these domestic consumers, solar power plants will be installed on their rooftops or at nearby public places to provide benefits. Under the Kutir Jyoti scheme, for extremely poor families, the state government will bear the entire cost of installing solar power plants, and for the rest, the government will provide appropriate support. This means domestic consumers will no longer have to bear any cost for electricity up to 125 units, and at the same time, it is estimated that within the next three years, up to 10,000 megawatts of solar energy will be available in the state.”

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Elections for the Bihar Legislative Assembly, covering all 243 constituencies, will be conducted in either October or November 2025. After forming the government in 2020, the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) broke the alliance with the NDA and formed a government with the RJD led Mahagathbandhan in Bihar in August 2022, However, in January 2024, the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) broke with the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan and aligned with the BJP.

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First published on: Jul 17, 2025 10:36 AM IST


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