Abstract: Regional Rural Banks are the banking financial intermediaries working especially for the development of rural sector of Indian economy. The main aim of establishing these institutions was to facilitate the rural people with core banking functions in general and loaning to those landless and marginal farmers, artisans, field workers etc.who could not access to other sources of organised financial system. RRBs not only work for providing finances but also cater additional responsibilities of developing rural areas through various development programmes like rural employment schemes, women entrepreneurship, rural infrastructural development, SHGs etc. This paper highlights the role of Aryavart Gramin Bank in lending to priority sector and their achievements so far. A special emphasis has been given to the study of solar homes lightening system(SHLS,) provided by Aryavart Gramin Bank through micro finance to the rural people of Uttar Pradesh for solar home lights, for which they were honoured with “ASHDEN INTERNATIONAL AWARD” in 2008 and “INDIA POWER AWARD” in 2009. The proposed study is exploratory and descriptive in nature and based upon the analysis of secondary data.