KUSUM: - The Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Uttam Mahabhiyaan is a solar farming scheme to be

introduced by the Govt. of India to provide additional income and water security to farmers.
The scheme is for setting up solar power projects on the agriculture land and providing options
to farmers to sell additional power to grid.

Aims of the Scheme:

1. Promote decentralized solar power production.

2. To support the financial health to DISCOMs by reducing the burden of subsidy to the
agriculture sector.
3. Reduce transmission losses.
4. To promote energy efficiency and water conservation.
5. Provide water security to farmers through provisions of assured water sources through
solar water pumps both off-grid and grid connected.
6. To provide reliable power to utilize the irrigation potential created by state irrigation
departments.
7. To fill the void in solar power production in the intermediate range between roof tops
and large parks.

Main features of this Scheme:

1. The government will spend about 48,000 crores rupees over 10 years as central
financial assistant.
2. The scheme aims to encourage the use of barren lands for using solar power plants.
3. Uses of solar farm water pumps to farmers.