86% urban slum households with LPG, only half use it exclusively: study

Despite LPG connections in 86 per cent households in urban slums, only half of them use LPG exclusively, resorting to use of polluting fuels such as biogas and firewood as well, according to a study released on Wednesday by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).

The ‘Cooking Energy Access Survey 2020’ has looked at urban slums across six states ― Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh ― and 83 urban slums across 58 districts. The six states account for nearly a quarter of India’s urban slum population.

The study has further found that 16 per cent of households are still using traditional fuels such as firewood, dung cakes, agricultural residue, charcoal, and kerosene as their primary fuel and over a third are stacking LPG with these polluting fuels.