India accelerates electric cooking push amid West Asia LPG concerns
With the West Asia conflict making LPG imports tricky (and nearly 65% of India's annual demand imported, about 90% of it from West Asia), India is stepping up its push for electric cooking.
The government's EESL is considering a revamp of its National Efficient Cooking Program, with a possible zero-interest loan model under discussion for helping lower-income families switch to electric stoves.
EESL closes tender for 100,000 cookstoves
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EESL has already closed a tender for 100,000 stoves and has two more tenders scheduled totaling 500,000 units.
The program was launched with a target of 2 million cookstoves, and a phase-wise target of 1 million induction-based cookstoves by FY27 was later cut to 500,000.
This big move aims to make India less dependent on imported LPG and help avoid future supply shocks.