Analysis: LPG Supply Shock Exposes Fragility of India’s Clean Cooking Strategy
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In the streets of Bhalaswa, a neighbourhood in north-west Delhi, Rama is known as “cylinder wali madam”. For years, she has facilitated LPG connections for low-income residents, persuading them to put away their wood and coal-fired stoves and helping them secure subsidies under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), a government scheme to promote the use of LPG. For the last two weeks, however, she’s had to watch her efforts come undone as delays hit LPG supplies, triggered by the Israel-Iran conflict thousands of kilometres away.
Source: Mongabay (link opens in a new window)
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