Dear
Shri Ajay Shankarji,
With
great interest , I read your following article in Business Line ( Oct 12 ) :
Where
you write :
A more ambitious transition can now be
attempted to get rural households to use electricity for cooking. This would
transform the quality of the lives of rural women, eliminate indoor air
pollution, and improve health. Like LEDs, bulk procurement of efficient
electric cooking stoves could be undertaken by an aggregator, like EESL, to
bring down prices.
These stoves can be given to rural households for cooking to be
paid for, in easy instalments, and free to BPL households. Basic cooking and
lighting can be done in about a hundred units a month.
But
,
If
the electricity for the kitchen is going to be generated in coal-based power
plants , then we may be only transferring the pollution !
Ideal
solution would be :
·
A
solar Powered Electric “ Chulha “ , coupled with Battery Storage devices
In
this context , you might want to read :
Solar
Chula ? Some Unanswered Questions [ 03 Nov 2017 ]
Solar
Chulha : Where can I buy ? [ 16 July 2018 ]
I
think , we should subsidize such SOLAR POWERED chulhas , in a big way ( only
when ONGC finds time to commercialize the same – which I doubt !
With
regards,
Hemen
Parekh / Mumbai
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