14/04/21 Delhi’s poor return to dirty fuel in COVID-19 lockdown
Income reductions have forced households to abandon LPG and use solid fuels in cooking. Copyright: Kaushalspeed, (CC BY-SA 4.0). This image has been cropped.
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Even with higher penetration, only half of urban slum households use LPG exclusively
Even with higher penetration, only half of urban slum households use LPG exclusively
Last Updated: Wed, Mar 17th, 2021, 12:18:50hrs
New Delhi: Even as government claims to have taken cooking gas penetration in the country to over 99 per cent of households, an independent study on the usage of the LPG shows that very few households, even in urban areas, use the cleaner fuel in their kitchen.
According to a recently released independent study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), only half of the urban slum households in the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, use LPG exclusively.
India Business News: NEW DELHI: Only half of the households in urban slums fully depend on LPG (liquefied natural gas supplied in cylinders) for cooking, while the rest co.
Even as government claims to have taken cooking gas penetration in the country to over 99 per cent of households, an independent study on the usage of the LPG shows that very few households, even in urban areas, use the cleaner fuel in their .
Read more about Only half of urban slum households use LPG exclusively: Study on Business Standard. An independent study on the usage of the LPG shows that very few households, even in urban areas, use the cleaner fuel in their kitchen