Over 50% of rural households use fossil fuel for cooking: NSSO
The New Indian Express|March 16, 2023
THE National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) carried out the Multiple Indicator Survey (MIS) covering the entire country in its 78th round. The survey says that over 50% of rural households do not use clean source of energy for cooking food.
JITENDRA CHOUBEY
Over 50% of rural households use fossil fuel for cooking: NSSO

Overall, around 37 per cent of households still use polluted sources of energy for cooking purposes. It raises questions over the success of Government of India's flagship scheme, Pradhan Mantri Ujjawala Yojana (PMUY), under which over 9.58 crore households received LPG cylinders. However in a stark difference, 92% of urban households use clean energy sources for cooking. Here clean fuel refers to LPG, other natural gas, gobar gas, other biogas, electricity (including solar/ wind power generators) and solar cooker.

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