Vinod Kumar is a passionate social entrepreneur and clean energy advocate from Nalanda district, Bihar, who is transforming rural lives by promoting sustainable energy solutions. In villages plagued by frequent power cuts and lack of access to modern energy, Vinod stepped in with innovative ideas to bring solar energy and clean cooking technologies to underserved households.
Through his small NGO, he has distributed low-cost solar lanterns, solar panels, and clean cookstoves to hundreds of families, reducing their dependence on harmful kerosene lamps and firewood. His work not only improves health and safety (especially for women and children) but also enables students to study at night and businesses to run after dark, boosting rural productivity. Vinod Kumar also conducts awareness programs on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and climate change, planting the seeds of sustainability in communities often left out of national energy dialogues. Though he rarely appears in the news, his quiet innovations are lighting up lives literally and figuratively across Bihar.