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Petroleum Rural India continues to be deprived of LPG, electricity
Our Bureau New Delhi, Oct. 31 Less than one in 10 rural households use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as their major cooking fuel. Three-fourths of households in rural India continue to depend on firewood and chips as their main cooking fuel. About nine per cent use dung cake and another nine per cent LPG, according to the National Sample Survey Organisation’s (NSSO) latest report on Household Consumption Expenditure in India: 2006-07, released here on Friday. The situation is much better in urban areas, where 59 per cent of households use LPG as the major cooking fuel. Rural India is also placed poorly in terms of access to electricity. Only 56 per cent of households use electricity as the major fuel for lighting, with these ranging from 11 per cent in Bihar, 26 per cent in Uttar Pradesh, 30 per cent in Orissa, 32 per cent in Assam and 37 per cent each in West Bengal and Jharkhand to 95 per cent in Punjab, 91 per cent in Haryana, 90 per cent in Tamil Nadu, 88 per cent in Karnataka, 87 per cent in Kerala, 84 per cent in Andhra Pradesh and 83 per cent in Gujarat. As much as 88 per cent of households in rural Bihar use kerosene as major fuel for lighting, with these being 72 per cent in Uttar Pradesh, 69 per cent in Orissa, 67 per cent in Assam and 62 per cent each in West Bengal and Jharkhand. According to the report, the average monthly per capita consumer expenditure in 2006-07 for urban India, at Rs 1,312, was almost twice the corresponding Rs 695 for rural India. Moreover, out of every rupee spent by the average rural India, over 52 paise was on food, whereas this came to only 39 paise in the case of urban Indians. More Stories on : Petroleum
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