Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, Apr 08, 2004
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Lifestyle Fuel for the fire Sudhanshu Ranade
MORE than 61 per cent of Indian households used firewood for cooking in 1991. Wood still topped the list 10 years later; but one of every six users had given up on it; perhaps because they found it more and more difficult to come by, or, to be more precise, get to. Whatever the reason, the 2001 Census figure was 52 per cent. Over the same period, cow dung was down from 15 per cent to 10 per cent. One in every three households no longer preferred the stuff; perhaps it was, for them, no longer freely available. Kerosene, too, fell: from 7 per cent to 6 per cent; but the primary reason for this may well have been the doubling of LPG use from an already high 8 per cent in 1991 to a whopping 17.5 per cent three years ago; almost one out of every five Indian households.
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