Consumer tagging to curb power pilferage in Bihar

Bihar’s state-run power distribution companies are in the final stages of linking all 22.2 million electricity consumers with their respective distribution transformers in a major technology-driven exercise aimed at pinpointing power theft, improving energy accounting and forecasting electricity demand more accurately, officials said on Tuesday.

The exercise, expected to be completed by June, is being carried out by the North Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited and the South Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited.