Big announcement ahead of polls: Free electricity upto 125 units in Bihar from August 1; all you need to know | India News
NEW DELHI: As the run up to the Bihar polls heats up, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on early Thursday announced free electricity of upto 125 units. Announcing the move, Nitish lauded his governments policies as being ‘affordable from the beginning’ and said that starting from August 1, all domestic consumers will ‘not have to pay any charges for up to 125 units of electricity.‘As the Bihar election season intensifies, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday morning announced a major relief for residents: free electricity for up to 125 units. While unveiling the scheme, Kumar praised his government’s long-standing commitment to affordability, and said that starting August 1, all domestic consumers will be exempt from paying charges for the first 125 units of electricity.“We have decided that from 1 August 2025, that is, from the July bill onwards, all domestic consumers in the state will not have to pay any charges for up to 125 units of electricity,” Nitish said in a post on X.“This will benefit a total of 1 crore 67 lakh families in the state,” the statement added.Elections for Bihar are due in late 2025.
