14 OCTOBER 2026 · GHUMNA BHARU, MIHINPURWA BLOCK, BAHRAICH, UTTAR PRADESH
Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat visits the Ghumna Bharu Agri-PV unit
Shri Saurabh Kumar Tiwari, Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, visited the community-run Agri-PV plant at Ghumna Bharu gram panchayat on 14 October 2026, with Ganesh Mahalawat of the National Centre for Good Governance. He inspected the array, the solar irrigation system, the pump outlets and the unit's records, and met the women's self-help groups who run the plant. He called it an oasis in the desert.
The plant has a capacity of about 43 kW. Its ten solar pumps irrigate close to 100 acres of farmland, and irrigation now costs farmers about ₹60 an hour instead of ₹200 an hour on diesel. Operation and management are in the hands of women's self-help groups. The unit was developed by Transform Rural India with the Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihoods Mission.
Also present were Devendra Kumar Ojha and Dhananjay Singh, Deputy Commissioners, UPSRLM; Monalisa Johri, SDM Motipur; Vijay Kumar Singh, BDO Mihinpurwa; and Rajeev Tripathi of Transform Rural India.
43 kW
solar capacity
~100 acres
irrigated by 10 solar pumps
₹200 → ₹60
per hour irrigation cost
