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India’s Clean Cooking Challenge: Can we look beyond subsidising LPG?
While this translates to over 100 percent coverage of clean cooking fuels, the uptake remains limited with 40 percent of households still depend on solid fuels like cow dung and firewood. PMUY customers get a subsidy for up to 12 cylinders, but, on average, they only use 3.8 cylinders annually. The average consumption of non-PMUY in the fiscal year (FY) 2022-23 was 6.6 cylinders.
Publisher: The Economic Times