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Millions Of Women Face Health Risk From Cuts to Modi's Fuel Plan


Millions Of Women Face Health Risk From Cuts to Modi’s Fuel Plan
Bloomberg
3/9/2021
Debjit Chakraborty, Saket Sundria and Dhwani Pandya
(Bloomberg) Five years ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government offered Indian women a chance to dramatically improve their lives with cooking fuel subsidies in what became one of his administration’s most celebrated campaigns.
Now, hamstrung by a widening fiscal deficit, New Delhi has been slowly reducing the size of those handouts a shift that risks upsetting women voters and potentially exposing millions to heavier levels of pollution.
In Allauddinnagar, a village in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, Laxmi Kishore, a 35-year-old homemaker, is worried. Cooking food for her family used to be an ordeal that involved using cheap fuels like cow dung, crops and wood, which burn with a sooty flame and left her teary eyed and choking. When Modi’s program made liquefied petroleum gas cylinders af ....

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