Dharnai is a small village located in the district of Makhdumpur, Jehanabad in the Indian state of Bihar.
In 2015 Greenpeace funded[1] a project to make Dharnai India's first village powered entirely by solar energy,[2] but little more than a year later villagers demanded and got electricity from the regular grid due to the low power availability and high cost of the solar system (which they called "fake energy").
The total population of children had 534 in the age bracket of 0–6 years in which 257 were girls and 277 were boys.
[citation needed] The people of Dharnai mostly speak Hindi & English.
[citation needed] The surrounding villages to Dharnai are Umta, Pali, Berka, Railly, Chatiyana, Khaneta, Bela, Makhdumpur Rampur, Mananpur The nearest airport to Dharnai is Gaya which located at the distance of 23.0 km whereas Barabar railway station at the distance of 0.1 km.