The statement says that in order to make smokeless stoves popular the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy launched a National Biomass Cook-stove Initiative during 2009. The primary aim of the initiative is to develop and enhance the availability of better and efficient family and community size Biomass Cook-stoves for household and industrial applications in the country.
It also emphasizes on enhancement of technical capacity in the country by setting up testing, certification and monitoring facilities and strengthening R&D programmes in technical institutions of the country.
In this regard, the Ministry has constituted a Core Group and sanctioned a project to assess present status of various types of improved Biomass Cook-stoves currently available, their suitability and delivery mechanisms and to prepare an action plan for development and deployment of cook-stoves.
Simultaneously, the Ministry has identified four test centers for carrying out performance testing.
