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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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Category-wise/Area-wise No. of Consumers as on 31-03-2009

 SL Area Board/
Transmission Zone		 Number of Consumers Total
Type DS NDS IND HT S/L Agr (Pvt) STW PHED Rly Trac Others
1. PESU Registered 2,69,916 79,316 9,813 383 75 1,333 52 135 - - 3,61,023
Effective 2,40,436 53,629 3,209 302 54 1,180 49 128 - - 2,98,987
2. CENTRAL Registered 3,26,618 36,241 9,964 148 328 50,983 1,402 247 - 809 4,26,740
Effective 2,57,401 14,821 1,508 103 20 9,793 497 180     2,84,323
3. MAGADH Registered 3,23,416 42,961 15,406 74 124 82,608 848 321 - - 4,65,758
Effective 2,47,192 19,489 2,473 38 23 31,320 392 190 - - 3,01,117
4. BHAGALPUR Registered 2,65,832 29,853 9,300 48 256 14,909 498 49 - - 3,20,745
Effective 2,18,306 14,532 3,331 38 53 4,836 216 36 - - 2,41,348
5. MITHILA Registered 3,66,437 34,317 8,592 86 143 5,726 1,490 180 - - 4,16,971
Effective 3,03,372 14,849 690 51 46 177 486 97 - - 3,19,768
6. TIRHUT Registered 5,67,321 62,282 9,516 200 441 8,967 1,664 287 - - 6,50,678
Effective 4,71,100 33,083 1,413 114 28 782 669 178 - - 5,07,367
7. KOSI Registered 2,60,320 33,872 4,740 115 145 2,678 545 97 - - 3,02,512
Effective 2,06,726 19,118 976 78 62 876 232 60 - - 2,28,128
  TOTAL Registered 23,79,860 3,18,842 67,331 1,054 1,512 1,67,204 6,499 1,316 - 809 29,44,427
Effective 19,44,533 1,69,521 13,600 724 286 48,964 2,541 869 - - 21,81,038
  Transmission Zone
PATNA		 Registered - - - 2 - - - - 14 - 16
Effective - - - 2 - - - - 14 - 16
  GRAND TOTAL Registered 23,79,860 3,18,842 67,331 1,056 1,512 1,67,204 6,499 1,316 14 809 29,44,443
Effective 19,44,533 1,69,521 13,600 726 286 48,964 2,541 869 14 - 21,81,054