{"id":51688,"date":"2019-08-29T18:20:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=51688"},"modified":"2019-08-29T18:21:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:51:02","slug":"answered-using-cleaner-fuels-such-as-lpg-is-essential-to-reduce-rural-air-pollution-and-improve-health-in-light-of-this-discuss-what-can-policymakers-do-to-achieve-exclusive-use-o","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-using-cleaner-fuels-such-as-lpg-is-essential-to-reduce-rural-air-pollution-and-improve-health-in-light-of-this-discuss-what-can-policymakers-do-to-achieve-exclusive-use-o\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cUsing cleaner fuels such as LPG is essential to reduce rural air pollution and improve health.\u201d In light of this discuss what can policymakers do to achieve exclusive use of clean fuels in rural India?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction.<\/strong> Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Benefits of LPG over traditional fuels. What policymakers should do? Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Developing countries like India are confronting the vulnerabilities associated with the climate change on one hand and the challenges of development and poverty alleviation on the other, which are closely associated with providing energy access to the energy poor in the country. As per the National Sample Survey 68th round, the dominant fuel used in rural India still consists of firewood, with around two thirds of the households still dependent on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benefits of LPG over traditional fuel:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Health-related benefits,\nincluding improved quality of life as a result of less human suffering, reduced\nhealth-related expenditure as a result of less illness and the value of\nproductivity gains resulting from less illness and fewer deaths.<\/li>
  2. Time savings from reduced\ndrudgery from collecting and preparing biomass for use, usually by women and\nchildren and from more efficient and rapid cooking and heating, increasing the\ntime available for other social and economic activities.<\/li>
  3. Fuel savings from using a\nmore efficient stove.<\/li>
  4. The avoided economic cost of\nenvironmental degradation caused by the use of solid fuels, including reduced\ndeforestation and increased agricultural productivity where agricultural\nresidues and dung are used as fertiliser rather than fuel, as well as reduced\nemissions of greenhouse gases and black carbon.<\/li>
  5. Other less tangible\nbenefits, such as increased personal esteem, prestige and comfort levels that\nresult from a cleaner, tidier and more modern home environment.<\/li>
  6. LPG does not produce harmful\npollutants, such as sulphur oxides and nitrogen oxide, like traditional fuels.\nIt has 50% fewer carbon emissions than coal and 20% fewer than oil.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    What\npolicymakers should do?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Awareness\ncampaign: <\/strong>Policymakers should communicate the harms of solid fuels and the benefits\nof cleaner fuels. A large campaign communicating that solid fuels harm\nrespiratory health may change these beliefs. Further currently, governments are\nproviding assistance to poor households through free LPG connections, which\ntakes away the startup cost, but households are unaware of such schemes. There\nis an urgent need to devise an awareness campaign for the consumers focusing on\nhow poor customers can benefit from of such schemes. <\/li>
    2. Ease\nof registration: <\/strong>A set of guidelines should be given to the LPG distributors to ease new\ncustomer registration, especially for poor customers.<\/li>
    3. Grievance\nredressal: <\/strong>A toll-free grievance number should be set up and advertised well.<\/li>
    4. Instalment\nschemes: <\/strong> Monthly instalment facilities\nshould be made available for a household that has difficulties arranging for\none-time lump sum payments towards startup cost.<\/li>
    5. Reducing\nprices: <\/strong>Reducing the cost of LPG cylinder refills in rural areas, where residents\nare poorer and solid fuels are easier to access, would help.<\/li>
    6. Gender\nequality: <\/strong>Promoting gender equality within households, particularly in cooking and\nrelated task is needed. public policy must recognise that in households, if men\nwould do his share of the cooking, a complete transition to LPG would happen.\nCurrent Ujjwala scheme, focuses on the benefits of clean fuels for women,\nreinforces inequality. Advertisements showing that gas is so good that even men\ncan cook with it will challenge both misinformation on LPG and gender inequalities\nin household tasks.<\/li>
    7. Female\nliteracy:<\/strong> Female literacy is an important determinant of the use of cleaner\ncooking fuels. Female education is a huge challenge and females have usually\nlower access to education facilities. Therefore, education among females should\nbe strongly promoted.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      LPG is cleaner fuel and is more efficient. In tackling the climate change issue and providing fuel security, it is important to promote use of LPG which would be good for health of the women as well as for the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Demand of the question Introduction. Contextual Introduction. Body. Benefits of LPG over traditional fuels. What policymakers should do? Conclusion. Way forward. Developing countries like India are confronting the vulnerabilities associated with the climate change on one hand and the challenges of development and poverty alleviation on the other, which are closely associated with providing energy… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cUsing cleaner fuels such as LPG is essential to reduce rural air pollution and improve health.\u201d In light of this discuss what can policymakers do to achieve exclusive use of clean fuels in rural India?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51688","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}