Clean Cooking and Social Position of Women
The pertinent question is that how can we energizing change clean cooking keeping in mind the aspects of the social position of women? The main objective is to examine the fundamental questions: How do women can be involved in clean cooking? How its distribution can be benefited? How does it bring economic autonomy to women? How does aid in changing the social position of women -- within the household and beyond? India is undergoing a clean cooking revolution with the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), a government initiative. The programme is laudable for its unique approach, design and implementation strategy and has succeeded in distributing more than 80 million subsidised liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections to women from underprivileged households. However, it has been noticed that PMUY has some limitations which affect the program due to affordability of refills and behavioural patterns in cooking choices and issues with supply chai...