The
Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has formulated National Biomass Cookstove Programme (NBCP) for implementation in the 12th
Plan Period. Improved biomass cookstoves will be
disseminated for domestic and community cooking applications on cost sharing basis.
Under this Programme, demonstration projects, existing and better cookstoves and different grades of process biomass fuel,
will be undertaken which will facilitate exploring a range of technologies
deployment, biomass processing and delivery models.
The
Ministry has strengthened three test centres for carrying out performance
testing of improved biomass cookstoves to maintain
the quality of products. Only cookstoves which
satisfy the stipulated performance tests and approved by MNRE are considered in
the demonstration programme.
As
follow up to the National Biomass Cookstove
Initiative (NBCI) which was launched by Ministry on 2nd December, 2009, pilot
scale projects have been taken up for demonstration of improved biomass cookstoves for domestic cooking.
The
pilot projects have been taken up in the states of J&K, Uttar Pradesh,
Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh,
Karnataka and Odisha. The programme will cover all
the states in the next phase.
State-wise
targets for pilot scale demonstration of different models of improved biomass cookstoves for domestic cooking.
State-wise targets for pilot scale
demonstration of different models of improved biomass cookstoves
for domestic cooking.
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Sl. No.
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States
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Number of cookstoves
|
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1
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J & K
|
3000
|
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2.
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Uttar Pradesh, Bihar
and Chhattisgarh
|
3000
|
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3.
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Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and
Karnataka
|
3000
|
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4.
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Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa
|
3000
|
This
information was given by Minister for New & Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah
in the Rajya Sabha today.
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