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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Fuelling problems: India’s poor are being forced to return to unclean cooking fuels; here’s why -Seema Prasad

Fuelling problems: India’s poor are being forced to return to unclean cooking fuels; here’s why -Seema Prasad

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published Published on Aug 28, 2022   modified Modified on Aug 29, 2022

-Down to Earth

With LPG prices crossing the Rs 1,000-mark, the poor now have to make unfair choices about their basic standard of life

Farm labourer Mahadesha from Karnataka, groundnut farmer R Chandrashekharreddy from Andhra Pradesh, homemaker Geeta from Haryana and slum dweller Naresh from Ghaziabad are facing the same dilemma. The cost of a liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder has crossed over Rs 1,000 on the back of regular price revisions and this is forcing them to make unfair choices about their basic standard of life.

“If I buy an LPG cylinder now, I will not be able to send my children to school this month,” 35-year-old Mahadesha from Thigadahalli village in Karnataka, said.

His calculation is simple. Over the past year, LPG cylinders have become almost Rs 200 costlier, which is half of what he spends on sending his two children to school. “If we continue to use LPG, then cooking fuel alone would eat up one-fourth of my household income,” he said.

Some 600 km away, Chandrashekharreddy, the owner of a two-hectare farm in Kandukur village in Andhra Pradesh, is busy setting up a firewood stove at home. “I simply cannot afford LPG with my monthly income of Rs 8,500 anymore,” he said.

Almost 10 per cent of the households in his village have already rolled back to using fuelwood. “Most other families are also thinking of going the same way,” he said.

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Down to Earth, 28 August, 2022, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/energy/fuelling-problems-india-s-poor-are-being-forced-to-return-to-unclean-cooking-fuels-here-s-why-84350?fbclid=IwAR0YaSHE9ojQTkI91o6f0jY8L4gfKiRJpfIiEny8d0zX9bng0M06U4mCpXE


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