Providing Clean Cooking Fuel in India: Challenges and solutions
This report explores the issues and challenges of clean cooking in urban India through a case study of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation in Uttar Pradesh. The report analyses results from a survey of 250 households in Ghaziabad district which yielded statistics and insights on clean cooking coverage and accessibility, energy usage and prices and how gender is an important determinant of cleaner cooking fuels.
India has the world’s largest concentration of population using biomass with inefficient stoves—about 840 million people in India rely fully or partially on traditional biomass for cooking.
In India, cooking is mainly carried out by women, and they thus play an important role in managing domestic energy needs. When modern fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) are unavailable, women and children not only face health hazards due to smoke but also “time poverty.” Freedom from smoke and the drudgery associated with biomass is a pressing need to empower women and allow families to live purposeful lives.
This report explores the issues and challenges of clean cooking in urban India through a case study of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation in Uttar Pradesh. The report analyzes results from a survey of 250 households in Ghaziabad district which yielded statistics and insights on clean cooking coverage and accessibility, energy usage and prices and how gender is an important determinant of cleaner cooking fuels.
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