3. Fuel used for Cooking
In 2011 the pattern remains nearly same but at a lower percentage : 54%
% of Hh Using Firewood in (Rural + Urban) sector
More than 64% households More than 54% households
Census 2001 Census 2011
4. Fuel used for Cooking
% of households Using Firewood in Urban sector
More than 27% households More than 18.5% households
Census 2001 Census 2011
5. Considerable urban households (>27 %) used firewood in
2001 with Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Odisha having >34% such
households.
The threshold reduced to 18.5% in 2011 with same pattern
persisting (with Bihar and West Bengal not showing
commensurate reduction)
How does the picture look at the district level ?
6. Fuel used for Cooking
Use of Firewood in (Rural + Urban) sector
More than 65% households More than 61% households
Census 2001 Census 2011
7. We see a contiguous belt where more than 2/3rds
households used firewood for cooking. The region
remains more or less unchanged in 2011 but for the
cut off coming down to 61%.
8. Fuel used for Cooking
Use of Firewood in Rural sector
More than 62% households More than 61% households
Census 2001 Census 2011
9. The same cutoff (65%) for rural area reveals a much
larger belt which becomes even larger if we lower
the cutoff to > 62% in 2001 and 61% in 2011.
10. Fuel used for Cooking
Use of Firewood in Urban sector
More than 25% households More than 20% households
Census 2001 Census 2011
11. Even in the urban area more than 1/4th households
were using firewood for cooking in a large number of
districts in 2001. We see the same pattern in 2011
except that the percentage of households using
firewood has come down from 25% to about 20%.
22. Fuel used for Cooking
Use of Cow Dung Cake in Rural sector
More than 10% households More than 7% households
Census 2001 Census 2011
23. Fuel used for Cooking
Use of Cow Dung Cake in Urban sector
More than 2% households More than 2% households
Census 2001 Census 2011
24. A considerable portion of the Indo-Gangetic belt
showed 10% or more households using cow dung in
rural areas (>2% in urban).
In 2011 the percentage of these households has
come down to 7% (>2% in urban).
27. Fuel used for Cooking
Use of Kerosene as in Urban Sector
More than 12% households More than 6% households
Census 2001 Census 2011
28. As per Census 2001, for Kerosene, a large urban
area had more than 12% households using it for
cooking while in a compact rural region only about
2% households used it.
Reduction in use of Kerosene for cooking is quite
clear in urban area with only >6% of household
using it. But the effect is not so visible in the rural
segment.
30. Coal or its different forms e.g. lignite or charcoal
have not been very popular except in the eastern
coal belt with about 8% rural households using it
More than 8% households
Rural
Census 2001
32. But in use of LPG urban India shows a large swath
with more than 1/3rd households using LPG in 2001
a luxury not available to even 5% rural households.
More than 33% households More than 5% households
Urban Rural
33. What is remarkable is that the same region now
shows >55% urban households using LPG and in
rural area >11% households use LPG in 2011
More than 33% households More than 5% households
Urban Rural
35. The percentage of households
that use bio gas as a fuel is
miniscule, but we can find out
regions where Bio Gas has been
popular as per the Census 2001
data.
The map shows districts where
0.5% or more households in rural
areas use bio gas
Where does Bio Gas figure in this ?
More than 0.5% households
in Rural Sector
36. Very interestingly similar
percentage of urban
households reportedly use bio
gas
Where does Bio Gas figure in this ?
More than 0.5% households
in Urban Sector
37. What needs to be noted is that, the cow-dung cake using belt
in the Indo-Gangetic region does not report use of Bio Gas
plants on the scale of the southern region.
What does it represent ?
Non availability of raw material ?
Availability of LPG ? Or
Is it plainly a governance issue ?
In 2011 there is an increase in the area for the same cut off
both in the rural and the urban segment.
38. Fuel used for Cooking
Use of Bio Gas as on Census 2011
More than 0.5% households More than 0.5% households
Rural Urban
40. An interesting pattern
emerges in eastern India
where a compact area
covering West Bengal,
Northern Odisha, parts of
Jharkhand and Northern
Bihar show use of ‘any
other’ category of cooking
fuel! This pattern recurs in
2011.
This needs some further
scrutiny.
More than 1.5% households
Fuel used for Cooking
Use of ‘Any Other’ in (Rural+Urban) Sector