METHANOL COOKING FUEL PROGRAM OF INDIA

Oct. 6, 2018

Assam Petro-chemicals, a state-owned company, launched Asia's first cannisters based and India's first "Methanol Cooking Fuel Program".

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  • The safe handling cannister based cooking stoves are from Swedish Technology and through a Technology transfer a large-scale cooking stove manufacturing plant will come up in India in the next 18 months producing 10 lakh Cookstoves and 1 Crore Cannisters per year.

  • Coverage: 500 households inside the Assam Petro Complex will be the first pilot project, scaling it to 40,000 households in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Telangana, Goa and Karnataka.

  • Objective: To reduce import of crude and to provide clean, import substitute, cost effective and pollution free cooking medium.

Source : PIB

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