Abstract
Access to reliable, affordable, and adequate clean cooking energy is critical for social well-being and essential for women's quality of life. This study carried out an extensive survey on cooking energy consumption and related attributes of 810 households in India—Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. The study finds that biomass is a dominant source of cooking energy and women have skewed fuel management and cooking burden. The finding indicates that the abundance of locally available biomass and existing cooking practices may affect cooking fuel choice. Switching to LPG benefits women in several ways, e.g. reduced cooking and utensils cleaning time, reduced drudgery and hardship associated with biomass collection and processing. The finding suggests that the PMUY scheme had helped improve the use of LPG for cooking in beneficiary households. However, cushioning LPG price through refill subsidy remains an important aspect of promoting clean cooking.
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