Popatrao Baguji Pawar (born 1960) is the farmer sarpanch of Hiware Bazar, a gram panchayat in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra India.

[4] He is credited to have transformed it from an impoverished village into a model of development that the government of Maharashtra wishes to implement across the state.

[7] He featured in an India Today cover story as the person who demonstrated how rural water resources could be revived.

[6] The Hiware bazare gram panchayat, with Pawar as its sarpanch, won the first National Award for community led water conservation in 2007.

[6][8] In an interview with Nikhil Wagle on IBN Lokmat, Pawar describes his entry into public life as an accident.