In a major revamp of natural gas allocation policy, the government will give city gas projects, selling CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households, top-most priority for receipt of dome

These rules may be called the Central Motor Vehicles (11th Amendment) Rules, 2014. On July 4, 2014, India finalized the fourth stage of emission standards for motorized two- wheeled vehicles.

The government has declared the Capital free of blue kerosene, and many have switched over to cooking gas.

KATHMANDU: Approximately 69.8 per cent of households in urban areas use Liquefied Petroleum Gas compared to 11.4 per cent of their rural counterparts as main source of fuel for cooking.

Delhi government has claimed that it has successfully implemented its scheme to make the city kerosene-free.

Besides this, the website also contains presentations, posters and youth resource guides dedicated to climate change.

Energy is important both for economic development, but it also plays a major role in improving conditions at the household level. The notion of an energy poverty line is well accepted around the world. There is a large body of literature on how to measure income poverty and the reliability of alternate measures.

Household consumption of various goods and services in India 2011-12. The report is based on information collected during 2011-12 from 101651 households in 7469 villages and 5268 urban blocks spread over the entire country.

This paper explores the link between fossil-fuel subsidies and gender in India. It focuses on the likely gender impacts of reform across cooking, lighting, pumping and transport fuels.

According to this report submitted by Prof S G Dhande chaired report, the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for LPG (DBTL) should be immediately recommenced as it is one of the most comprehensive systemic re-engineering of the LPG subsidy disbursement mechanism which ensures that the entitlement on LPG reaches the actual LPG consumer.

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