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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In poll-bound Chhattisgarh, women stick to chulhas despite LPG scheme -Nidhi Sharma

In poll-bound Chhattisgarh, women stick to chulhas despite LPG scheme -Nidhi Sharma

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published Published on Aug 24, 2018   modified Modified on Aug 24, 2018
-The Economic Times

Vimla Nishad bends on her small chulha and tries to light a fire. Her two-room house fills up with smoke and her two-year-old son starts coughing. The firewood is damp as it has been raining the whole day so it is taking longer to light up. She looks around nervously as it is 8 pm and she has to get the dinner going. Sitting in one corner of her bare kitchen is her LPG cylinder – empty.

Vimla, a resident of Lahanga village in Durg district, is a beneficiary of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, a flagship programme of Modi government which provides clean cooking fuel to below poverty line (BPL) urban and rural households. The scheme was rolled out on May 1, 2016 in Balia in Uttar Pradesh with an aim to replace unclean cooking fuels with LPG. On the ground, it is a different story.

ET travelled through election-bound Chhattisgarh to find women have still not given up traditional fuels like firewood and dung cakes and still cook on their earthen chulhas. With meagre incomes villagers find refills expensive and claim they are often short-changed by LPG dealers.

A NEW WAY OF LIFE

For new users in villages, LPG cylinders have not become a way of life. Vimla’s mother-in-law Uttara lives close to her home. “I got the cylinder in a camp in May,” says Uttara showing her gas stove. She, however, does not know how to use it. “I still use my chulha. My daughter uses it.” Her daughter Sulochana is the only earning member of the family. She works as a casual labourer in a farm. “My mother has never seen the cylinder and she is so old it is difficult to ask her to switch now,” says Sulochana. While she is away at work, Uttara cooks on the chulha. The evening meal is cooked on the gas stove by Sulochana.

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The Economic Times, 23 August, 2018, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/women-stick-to-chulhas-despite-lpg-scheme/articleshow/65510622.cms?utm_source=AMPusers&utm_medium


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