Umesh Kumar is a well- known politician, a good speaker and a true entrepreneur at heart and his mission is to make better infrastructure a matter of concern and to bring it among it among the list of development issues, to address the most basic but ignored need of infrastructure and the multifaceted role it plays in the lives of people especially in rural India.

Umesh sees his work as a way to address a core challenge of our times; the growing gap and inequality between the urban prosperity and rural poverty. Taking the menacing growth of urban waste, Umesh used it effectively and efficiently as a tool to trigger large scale development work on diverse issues in some of the most backward areas and remote communities of Bihar.

In this process he has created a model of a parallel economy which is not cash but trash based. With ULSF, Umesh Kumar has brought attention to a nonmarket, nonmonetary approach- one grounded in empathy and dignity. He has turned the mostly passive urban and rural masses into prime stakeholders and addressing their own needs by solving their own problems. He has done this by weaving together a beautiful pipeline system from the citied to the villages for channelizing resources to create empowerment and development in rural India.

Umesh Kumar considers one of the USLF state work to be changing mindsets about the immense humanitarian potential of people facing poverty by reusing urban surplus and demonstrating a model that delivers as promised.