Unnat Chullha Abhiyan ( UCA) Programme
Objectives
- To develop and deploy improved biomass cook-stoves for providing cleaner cooking energy solutions in rural, semi-urban and urban areas using biomass as fuel for cooking.
- To mitigate drudgery of women and children using traditional chulha for cooking.
- . To mitigate climate change by reducing the black carbon and other emissions resulting from burning biomass for cooking.
Activities
- To support R&D activities on development of efficient and cost effective designs of biomass cook-stoves with reduced emissions.
- To provide support for Test Centres for carrying out performance testing of biomass cookstoves as per BIS.
- Development of revised test protocols and standards.
- To take up a series of projects using existing commercially available and better chulhas and different grades of process biomass fuel with ultimate aim exploring a range of technologies deployment biomass processing and delivery models leveraging public-private partnerships.
- To support awareness and marketing campaigns and creating enabling environment
- for mass production of processed biomass fuel, network of dealers, entrepreneurs training and supply chain mechanism.
- Supporting training to manpower facilitating operation and maintenance networks at local level thus generating opportunities for employment.
- Taking up dissemination programme on family type and large size Unnat Chulhas / cookstoves for cooking applications.
- Awareness for use of biomass cookstove in target groups.
- The field and market experience of the above projects will be analyzed for developing a business model for commercialization including availing CDM benefit for biomass cookstove. The possibility of establishing a Section 25 company will be explored for carrying out the business of promotion of Unnat Chulhas in the country in future.
Physical Status of Unnat Chullha Abhiyan Programme
Sl.No |
Item Description |
Place of Distribution |
Number |
1 |
Community type forced draft improved biomass cookstove |
TSR Camps , Hostels,jails etc |
119nos
|
2 |
Family type natural draft improved biomass cookstove |
Forest Fringe village |
861 nos |