Karnataka Electricity Board Engineers Association (KEBEA) is a registered body under the Societies Act XXI of 1860 with register number 76 dated 26th November 1963 in Karnataka. The KEBEA has the registered office in its own building located in No 28, Silver Jubilee Building, Race Course cross Road, Ananda Rao Circle, Bangalore-560009.

KEBEA is recognized to be a strong body of power Engineers in the state of Karnataka. It proactively participates in all the progressive policies of the State Government and provides feed back to the state government of the technical, commercial and administrative interventions periodically.

KEBEA has always evinced keen interest in service to the consumers. Consumer satisfaction is its motto. It has meaningfully adopted a logo to depict the message SERVICE IS OUR PRIVILEGE.

During the year 1961, when the strength of graduate Engineers in the erstwhile Mysore State electricity Board was in single digits MSEB Engineers Association was formed. But the registration of the Association had to be postponed as the strength was less than the defined in the Societies Act. But the Association worked.

During 1962 when the strength of graduate Engineers in erstwhile Mysore State Electricity Board (which covered the entire state) was under 65, some senior Engineers who were in the helm of affairs sensed the need to establish a formidable forum . They were closely watching the impact of the MSEB employees Union (which was the only union in the then MSEB) in the matters of resolution of problems of either the sector or individuals. The size of Engineers in the sector was visualized to grow with the sector soon. The problems that would be faced by such large numbers were also recognized. The need to contribute professional advices to the State was kept in mind. The solution to all these problems was forming a registered Association. Thus our MSEB Engineers Association came in to being in 1963.

The focus was to inculcate esprit de corps among the members and all public, promotion of technical knowledge to members, pooling and supplying of technical information by publishing periodical journals and importantly to promote the interests of Engineers by organizing and uniting all Engineers in the State. With the passage of states reorganization act, the name of the state was changed from Mysore state to Karnataka State in 1973. The name of MSEB Engineers Association was changed to KEB Engineers Association in 1973.

The Association was given the task to etch out the work load norms to the cadres of the power sector. This was equitably executed and the recommendations of the Association were adopted by the Board in 1975.

The KEBEA was recognized for its selfless involvement in developmental works of the State. The recruitments of the cadres were matching the approved work load norms. The transfers and postings were done in consultation with the Association for more efficiency. Even during reforms, the association extended full support to the State government but the interests of the members were safeguarded through a tripartite agreement.

The KEBEA celebrated the silver jubilee year in 1986. On 26th December in each year thereafter the KEBEA is commemorating this by conducting a silver jubilee commemoration lecture. The lecture is given by eminent Engineers of the country. On the same day a Diary for the next year is also released which contains all the technical details required by the power Engineers.

KEBEA has a welfare scheme to come good to the welfare of the members who pass away while in service. This is widely welcomed by all the members.

The Associations’ requested the managements to spare lands of the sector to construct own buildings and to relentlessly peruse the activities. These requests were positively considered and as a result the association has constructed its own buildings in Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli, Mangalore, Tumkur, Davanagere, Belgaum, Gulbarga and Shimoga.

Considering the activities and usefulness of KEBEA to the state, the State Government of Karnataka agreed to appoint the President of the KEBEA as the Director on Board for KPTCL and all the Distribution companies to be a part of management. This gesture is unique in the country.

The Silver jubilee celebrations was held by participation of his Excellency, the Governor of Karnataka, The then Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka with various other dignitaries and scholars.

The members of the Association are continuously engaging themselves in educating the people of Karnataka by continuously providing safety meetings, safety awareness programme to school children to protect them from electrical accidents.

KEB Engineers Association believes in training young engineers, students to imbibe theory with practical knowledge, thereby improving the technical know-how of engineers coming out of colleges.

KEB Engineers Association has conducted technical symposium across the state regarding various burning issues and has carried out study about Energy Audit, Energy Conversation, Averting Electrical Accidents and failure of Transmission and distribution equipment’s and also many seminars have been conducted on various subjects of technology and health.

KEB Engineers Association has established its own dental clinic, the one of its kind in entire India as there is no insurance for dental issues and non-maintenance of dental hygiene is one of the major reasons of death. KEB Engineers Association has paid up around 3.19 Crores to family members of 143 deceased In-Service Engineers from the year 1990.