Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai

Mumbai, Dec 6: Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has achieved a historic milestone by installing 45,911 solar agricultural pumps in the span of just one month, earning recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records. The certificate will be presented on Friday at the Auric Grounds in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, along with senior ministers Atul Save, Sanjay Shirsat and Meghna Bordikar, will attend the ceremony.

The record feat has come under the government’s ambitious “Solar Pump for All” scheme, aimed at providing farmers with assured daytime electricity for irrigation. Farmers receive a 30% subsidy from the central government and 60% from the

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