Uttar Pradesh Solar Pump Yojana (PM-KUSUM Component B)

What is the Uttar Pradesh Solar Pump Yojana?

Uttar Pradesh Solar Pump Yojana is the state's programme for putting solar-powered irrigation pump sets on farmers' own fields in place of diesel pump sets and grid-electric pump sets. The Department of Agriculture, Government of Uttar Pradesh, runs the farmer-facing side of it on agriculture.up.gov.in, and it sits under the central PM-KUSUM programme, whose state nodal agency in Uttar Pradesh is UPNEDA, the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency. Farmers commonly search for it as Mukhyamantri Solar Pump Yojana or simply solar pump booking, and all of these refer to the same booking process on the agriculture portal.

The logic of the scheme is straightforward. A diesel pump set costs a farmer money on every single irrigation, and the cost rises with the diesel price. A solar pump set has a high one-time cost and almost no running cost afterwards. The scheme carries most of that one-time cost as subsidy so that the farmer pays only a balance share, and the pump then runs on sunlight for the rest of its working life.

Key features

• Implemented under PM-KUSUM Component B, the off-grid standalone solar pump component, with the Department of Agriculture handling farmer booking.
• Booking is entirely online on agriculture.up.gov.in, the portal states the confirmation process is fully transparent and online.
• Pumps are allotted against a token, generated by the farmer for the financial year that is currently live.
• Only farmers already registered on the agriculture DBT portal can book.
• Installation is done by empanelled solar agencies that hold logins on the same portal, not by contractors the farmer arranges.

Who is eligible for a solar pump in Uttar Pradesh?

You can get a solar pump if:

• You are a farmer resident in Uttar Pradesh with agricultural land recorded in your name.
• You hold a valid registration number on agriculture.up.gov.in. This is the same registration used for agricultural equipment subsidy and other DBT benefits of the department, and it is the single hard prerequisite.
• Your bank account is Aadhaar-seeded and in your own name.
• You have a working bore or water source at the field where the pump will stand, or can make one ready before the installation date. A solar pump is fitted onto an existing bore; the scheme supplies the pump and the solar array, not the bore.
• Your district booking window is open and its target for the year has not been exhausted.

You cannot apply, or your booking will not go through, if:

• You are not registered on the agriculture DBT portal. There is no way to generate a solar token without a registration number.
• The land is not recorded against you on the registration, a booking made against someone else's holding fails at verification.
• Your bank account is not Aadhaar-seeded, or is a joint or third party account.
• The booking window for your district is closed or the district target for the financial year is already filled. This is a genuine capacity limit, not a paperwork problem, and the answer is to book early in the next window.
• You are seeking a pump for non-agricultural use. The scheme covers irrigation pump sets on farm land.

What documents are required for the UP solar pump scheme?

Because the registration already carries your Aadhaar, land and bank details, the solar booking itself asks for very little fresh paperwork. Most failures at this stage are old errors in the registration, a wrong IFSC, a mis-typed khasra number — surfacing late. It is worth opening your registration record and checking it before a booking window opens.

How to apply for the Uttar Pradesh solar pump scheme

1. Open agriculture.up.gov.in and confirm you have a farmer registration number. If you do not, complete registration first through the registration link on the same portal, using Aadhaar, land record and bank passbook.
2. On the home page, open the solar scheme section (सोलर योजना), which leads to the solar pump pages for the financial year currently live.
3. Choose token generation (सोलर पंप हेतु टोकन) and generate a token against your registration number for the pump capacity you want. Note the token details and the deadline shown for confirming it.
4. Move to solar pump booking for the current financial year and confirm the booking against your token, selecting your district, block and the site details for the pump.
5. Pay the farmer share online through the payment option on the booking screen, within the time limit the portal allows. An unconfirmed token lapses and the slot passes to the next farmer in queue.
6. Save the booking acknowledgement and transaction reference, and watch for SMS on your registered mobile number about verification and the installation schedule.
7. When the empanelled solar agency contacts you, keep the bore and the site ready, and be present at installation so that the commissioning record is signed correctly.

There is no offline booking route for solar pumps in Uttar Pradesh. A Jan Suvidha Kendra or Common Service Centre can operate the portal on your behalf, but the transaction is still the same online booking and the money still goes through the portal's own payment gateway: never to an individual's account.

How much subsidy does the UP solar pump scheme give?

Uttar Pradesh publishes the capacity-wise cost and the farmer's balance share on the booking screen itself, and both are revised for each financial year as the tendered rates for pump sets change. Pump capacities are offered in a range of horsepower sizes so that a farmer can match the pump to the depth of the bore and the area to be irrigated.

This guide deliberately does not print a rupee figure for the farmer share, because a figure that was right for one financial year is misleading in the next, and wrong figures circulating on messaging apps are a common source of disputes with solar agencies. Read the amount on the booking screen at the moment you generate the token, and pay only that amount through the portal.

The department's warning on this point is worth repeating in full force: solar pump booking confirmation is a completely transparent and online process. Nobody can confirm your booking over a phone call, and any demand for cash to "secure" a pump is a fraud. The portal also carries a public notice that a look-alike website is fraudulent, so reach the booking pages only by typing agriculture.up.gov.in yourself.

How to check your solar pump booking status

1. Open agriculture.up.gov.in and go to the solar section.
2. Open the farmer status report and enter your registration number to see your booking and installation stage.
3. Use the district-wise solar booking report to see how many pumps have been booked against your district's target, which tells you whether the window is effectively still open.
4. Check the pump-wise solar report for installation-level tracking once an agency has been assigned to you.

If SMS updates stop, the usual cause is a mobile number changed since registration. Update the number on your farmer registration first. The solar module reads it from there.

Why solar pump bookings fail

• Token allowed to lapse without confirming the booking and paying within the window.
• District target filled before the booking was confirmed.
• Bank or Aadhaar mismatch on the underlying farmer registration.
• Land not recorded against the applicant on the registration.
• Bore not ready at the site when the agency arrives, which pushes the installation back and can cost the slot.
• Payment made outside the portal, to an agent or an agency employee, which the system never records as a confirmed booking.

Help and grievance redressal

• Registration and DBT helpline: 7839883124, listed by the Department of Agriculture, with dbt.validation@gmail.com for written queries.
• District Agriculture Officer (Jila Krishi Adhikari) for booking, allotment and installation disputes, and for reporting fraudulent calls.
• UPNEDA as the state renewable energy agency for PM-KUSUM, reachable through upneda.org.in, including its published complaint line 1800 180 0005.
• jansunwai.up.nic.in for a written grievance with a trackable complaint number if the district level does not resolve the matter.

No official will ask for your OTP, and no payment for a solar pump should ever leave your account to anything other than the portal's own payment gateway.