Patna: From once regarded as power power-starved state to a state giving 125 units of free electricity to its 1.86 crore domestic consumers, all this has happened because of Bihar government’s sustained efforts and endeavours to ensure power availability, besides strengthening and modernising power supply infrastructure in the state over a period of two decades under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The state’s NDA government, which started from scratch in 2005, has taken umpteen measures to improve the overall power scenario of the state. Be it the case of increasing power supply, per capita power consumption, phenomenal rise in number of power consumers, reducing AT&C losses, strengthening transmission & distribution lines.

The state, which could barely draw a meagre power supply of 700 MW across the state in 2005, has achieved a record power supply of 8752 MW on July 23 this year (2025) which is more than 12.5 times of what it was in 2005, as per energy department........

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