{"id":28407,"date":"2018-10-24T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28407"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:46:48","slug":"a-clean-cooking-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-clean-cooking-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"A clean cooking strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/a-clean-cooking-strategy\/article24392459.ece\">A clean cooking strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Article:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>NITI Aayog professionals Abhinav Trivedi and Anurag Mishra discuss about sustainable cooking fuel choices<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Analysis:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><u>Factors influencing cooking fuel choice:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>availability<\/li>\n<li>household income<\/li>\n<li>price of fuel<\/li>\n<li>education and awareness,<\/li>\n<li>culture or lifestyle, government policies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><u>Cooking fuel and Indoor air pollution:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooking fuels emit toxic pollutants such as respirable particles, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and sulphur, benzene, formaldehyde and polyaromatic compounds<\/li>\n<li>These substances contribute to indoor air pollution. In households with limited ventilation these pollutants can lead to severe health problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><u>Best Cooking Fuel options:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Various cooking fuel options include firewood, pellet, biogas, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas or LPG, piped natural gas or PNG<\/li>\n<li>Among the available cooking fuel options biogas accounts for the lowest effective greenhouse gas emission followed by PNG and LPG<\/li>\n<li>A comparison based on the cost of various fuels, annual life cycle emission per household (kg\/CO2 equivalent) and extent of in-house air pollution indicates that biogas and PNG are the best cooking fuel options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22892 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chart.jpg?resize=620%2C347\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chart.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chart.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chart.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><u>Importance of clean energy fuel for India:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>In India, a household spends an average of 5-6% of its total expenditure<\/li>\n<li>Affordable, reliable and clean energy is essential to reduce environmental and health impacts. Further, it is also important for women empowerment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><u>Government Initiatives:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The government had introduced the National Project on Biogas Development (NPBD) for promoting biogas as an affordable and clean cooking fuel in rural areas<\/li>\n<li>However, the programme suffered from major issues such as: corruption, poor construction material, a lack of maintenance, misrepresentation of achievements and a lack of accountability and follow-up services.<\/li>\n<li>The government launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna in 2016 with the objective of providing LPG connections to more than eight crore families.<\/li>\n<li>Further, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has been holding auctions across cities for distribution of gas for cooking through PNG.<\/li>\n<li>LPG has been promoted and subsidised over the years and consequently its preference has been on a rise<\/li>\n<li>However, LPG import along with large subsidies is a burden on government resources which hamper the focus on other social development programmes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><u>Promotion of biogas:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a need to promote biogas in rural and semi-urban areas- A service-based enterprise model with suitable resource availability should be adopted<\/li>\n<li>Such a model is being successfully implemented in Hoshiarpur, Punjab using a 100 cubic meter biogas plant. The plant supplies clean and piped cooking biogas to households and a school every day.<\/li>\n<li>Such models can also generation employment significantly at the grass-root level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li><u>Promotion of PNG:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>PNG should be promoted in urban areas starting from Tier-I and Tier-II\/III cities<\/li>\n<li>LPG should be made just one of the options to choose from rather than giving it primacy over others<\/li>\n<li>The cost of LPG must be set as the upper-cost ceiling<\/li>\n<li>PNGRB should focus only on the setting up of safety regulations, with distribution rights being given to distributors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li><u>Way Forward:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Consumption-based subsidies need to be replaced with a functional subsidy that is provided on the basis of household income levels and local variables.<\/li>\n<li>Issue of leakages should be addressed<\/li>\n<li>Citizens should be made aware of the cooking fuel options<\/li>\n<li>The energy choices should be based on the nature of the fuel and not because of socio-economic constraints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clean cooking strategy Article: NITI Aayog professionals Abhinav Trivedi and Anurag Mishra discuss about sustainable cooking fuel choices Important Analysis: Factors influencing cooking fuel choice: availability household income price of fuel education and awareness, culture or lifestyle, government policies Cooking fuel and Indoor air pollution: Cooking fuels emit toxic pollutants such as respirable particles,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-clean-cooking-strategy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A clean cooking strategy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704752779},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=28407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}