The survey for the July 2022-June 2023 period indicates that 92.9 per cent of households in urban areas used clean cooking fuel, while the share of households using clean fuel in rural areas stood at merely 49.5 per cent. For households with access to clean drinking water, the share was 94.9 per cent in rural areas and 97.5 per cent in urban areas.
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