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PM-KUSUM:  Driving Solar Revolution
                          at the Ground Level

            The Government of India        Government.   He   said,  “After
        launched  PM-KUSUM  with  the      knowing  about  the  PM-KUSUM
        objective of providing energy      scheme, I bought a solar water
        and water security to farmers,     pump. The solar water pump
        enhance    their  income,  de-     benefitted  me  as  it  cut  out  the
        dieselise  the  farm  sector  and   expense of diesel for the pump
        reduce environmental pollution. It   and I could utilise that saving for
        is one of largest initiatives in the   my farm.  By doing this we are able
        world  to provide  clean  energy   to protect the environment and
        to more than 35 lakh farmers by    also save electricity. With the help
        solarising their agriculture pump.   of solar water pump, the water
        In his ‘Mann ki Baat’, Prime Minister   supply has increased and so I
        Narendra Modi talked about the     have  changed  my farm’s  crops             cleaner energy consumption but     people will also get their work
        people who improved their lives    from dryland crops to wetland               has also given employment to       done. The biggest boon of this
        with the help of this scheme and   crops.” Further expressing his              other  people  as  a  result  of this.   scheme is that earlier,  we could
        are using solar energy in farming.  happiness on being praised                 Encouraging other farmers to       only run the motor through solar
            Our   Doordarshan     team     by the Prime Minister he said               also use the scheme to reap its    energy  but  now  through  USPC,
        talked  to  these  beneficiaries  of   that such recognition of the            benefits,  he  said,  “I  want  to  tell   good business can be done by
        PM-KUSUM.                          small efforts made by him helps             the farmers that you can begin     installing  many   equipments
            Thiru K. Ezilon, a farmer from   motivate many other farmers like          a  startup  utilising  cow  dung   along with the motor of the USPC
        Thamal village in Kancheepuram,    him.                                        and solar energy. This will not    controller.”
        Tamil Nadu has been doing              Another   farmer,   Kamal               only improve the income of the
        organic farming, cultivating crop,   Meena from Bharatpur, Rajasthan,          farmers  by  lowering  the  cost    Scan the QR code and know
        fruit and fish farming in his village.   was  thankful  to  Prime  Minister    burden but also improve their       how farmers are benefiting
        Intially, he used diesel pumps but   Modi for mentioning his name              health and the environment, and     from PM-KUSUM.
        now he has installed solar pump    on the national platform. He has
        under  KUSUM  scheme  of  Central   not only contributed towards





















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