Rural families use firewood for cooking because they cannot afford LPG

As per latest statistics, nearly two third of rural families living in villages use firewood for cooking during July, 2011 to June, 2012 – the corresponding figure for cities was only 14 per cent.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 30 July 2015.

The question of why rural families go in for firewood instead of gas is not because they love the smell of burning wood but because they just cannot afford such luxuries. Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants those who have two LPG connections to surrender one so that he could give it to those who use firewood. The fact is that they do not use firewood by choice but by compulsion.
The report of National Sample Survey Organisation study based on NSS 68th round of survey carried out during July, 2011 to June, 2012 has indicated that at the all-India level, firewood and chips were used by more than two-third (67.35) of rural households, followed by LPG, which was used by 15 per cent households.
The findings are - in villages, the proportion of families dependent on firewood and chips for cooking exceeded 56 per cent in all major states except Punjab and Haryana. Dung cake was an alternative – this was used for cooking for 33.4 per cent of rural families in Uttar Pradesh, 30.3 per cent in Punjab, 24.4 per cent in Haryana, 20.8 per cent in Bihar and 10.6 per cent in Madhya Pradesh.
Use of LPG for cooking in rural India was Tamil Nadu (37.2 per cent), Kerala (30.8 per cent) and Punjab (30.5 per cent). Against this, use of LPG was least in Chhattisgarh (1.5 per cent) followed by Jharkhand (2.9 per cent) and Odisha (3.9 per cent).
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