Nitish cabinet approves subsidy for power consumers
The Bihar cabinet today gave its nod for giving subsidy to energy consumers after the state regulatory commission had hiked the power tariff by five per cent for 2018-19.The decision to give much needed respite to power consumers was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Bihar Electricity Regulatory Commission (BERC) had on March 21 last announced the new power tariff for 2018-19.Last year too, the state govenrnment had announced the similar subsidy for power consumers after the Commission had ordered for 55 per cent hike in power tariff.Briefing mediapersons after cabinet meeting, Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh said the cabinet decided to give a subsidy of Rs 3.45 per unit for domestic co.....