Only half of urban slum households use LPG exclusively: CEEW
March 10, 2021
CEEW surveyed 650+ households across urban slums in six States - PICHUMANI K×
45% of homes use polluting cooking fuel, known as ‘fuel stacking’
Only about half of the urban slum households exclusively use LPG for cooking, according to a survey report released on Wednesday by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).
In spite of 86 per cent of the urban slum households having an LPG connection, about 45 per cent continue to use polluting cooking fuel – in what is known as “fuel stacking”.
Survey method
For the study, CEEW surveyed over 650 households across urban slums in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. The six states account for nearly a quarter of India’s urban slum population.