Background

Bihar State Electricity Board was constituted under section 5 of the Electricity Supply Act, 1948 vide Bihar Government's Notification No. 2884 - A/AI-121/57 dated 25th March, 1958 with effect from 1st April, 1958. The Board was given the responsibility of promoting coordinated development of Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electricity in the State in an efficient and economic manner.

Structure

The Chairman heads the Bihar State Electricity Board and there are posts of Member Administration, Member Finance, Member Generation, Member Transmission and Member Distribution.

At the zonal level, work is supervised by General Managers-cum-Chief Engineers. A Chief Engineer is assisted by Suptd. Engineers, Executive Engineers, Assistant Engineers and Junior Engineers. All in all, as on today, there are more than 16,550 employees working with BSEB.

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Consumer Statistics of Urban Divisions Bhagalpur PESU East Bhagalpur Urban 25,568 Patna City 25,331 Bhojpur Gulzarbagh 22,672 Arrah 19,796 Bankipore 18,841 Chapra Rajendra Nagar 14,539 Chapra West 15,343 Kankarbagh 33,528 Darbhanga PESU West Darbhanga Urban 14,027 Dakbunglow 19,486 Gaya East New Capital 23,598 Gaya 17,922 Danapur 34,807 Gaya West Patliputra 23,293 Aurangabad East 3,569 Gardanibagh 19,920 Aurangabad West 8,610 Purnea Motihari Purnea 18,240 Motihari 13,397 Katihar 21,207 Monghyr Saharsa Monghyr 24,113 Saharsa 7,221 Muzaffarpur Samastipur Muzaffarpur 13,074 Samastipur 17,022 Nalanda Begusarai 8,662 Biharsharif 12,467 Sasaram Sasaram 12,845 Total Consumers 4,89,098