Overview

• Free electricity up to 125 units per month will be applied from the July billing cycle, covering all domestic consumers in Bihar.
• The cabinet approved the scheme on July 18, months before the expected October–November assembly polls as part of a pre-election welfare push.
• Under the three-year Kutir Jyoti scheme, Bihar will install rooftop or community solar plants with full costs covered for the poorest families and subsidies for others to reach 10,000 MW.
• Deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary said the measure will raise the state’s annual power subsidy bill from about ₹16,000 crore to over ₹19,000 crore.
• Opposition parties accused the government of copying rival pledges, intensifying political contestation ahead of the vote.