Bharat Electronics, a professional company, which has found success in its increasingly popular microprocessor-based electronic voting machine (EVM), has supplied a state-of-the-art microprocessor based 1 kVA solar supply unit to power a rural information technology network. This computer network has been pioneered and demonstrated by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, which has been striving to provide the benefit of modern information technology (IT) to villages.