Energy Use in Rural Areas: A Study of Ten Villages in India

Bowonder, B.; Gupta, Biswajyoti Das; Gupta, Sanjeev; Prasad, S.S.R.

doi:10.1111/j.1477-8947.1986.tb00103.x

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“…In the study villages, century-old open or partly-closed chulhas, which have very low thermal efficiency, are used in almost all households. The innovations to increase end-use efficiency have not been able to make much headway due to economic, infrastructural, and sociocultural conditions and designing methods associated with these innovations (Geller 1982;Bowonder et al 1986;Agarwal 1986, pp. 77-105).…”

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Household energy and common lands in rural Haryana, India

Qureshi

Kumar

1996

Envir. Conserv.

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Rural people in most of the developing countries are facing an acute shortage of domestic fuel which has led to many socio-economic and environmental problems. In an attempt to examine the nature and extent of the household energy problem, and to suggest certain measures to alleviate it, 432 sample households from eight sample villages in Haryana, north-western India, were surveyed using structured questionnaires during 1995. We find that there has been widespread switching over to low quality fuels (crop residue and dung cake), more time and effort are now spent in fetching fuelwood, biomass fuels have been monetized, and that severe degradation of vegetation cover has occurred. All these changes reflect the acute shortage of household energy in rural areas of Haryana State. It has almost become a crisis, particularly in the Eastern Haryana Region and in poor households. The common lands still provide a significant proportion of household fuel, especially to landless and marginal farming households. Hence, energy plantation on common lands is an immediate, feasible and sustainable solution to the rural energy problem. There is also an urgent need to prevent the wastage of energy by increasing end-use efficiency.

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Household energy and common lands in rural Haryana, India

Qureshi

Kumar

1996

Envir. Conserv.

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“…Rural energy planners designing schemes to make village self-sufficient with regard to their energy needs are naturally interested in obtaining information relating to the existing energy consumption habits. Several studies have been reported in the literature that attempts to shed light on the energy consumption behaviour of rural areas in different Indian states [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. This information can be used to study and modify the proposed resource allocation policy to the satisfaction of the rural population.…”

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