With the price of LPG cylinders shooting through the kitchen roof, the poor are hard-pressed to cook their frugal meals. While the government has ensured that the humble poor man’s chula is no longer an option, it has not thought of a plan B to insulate the poor from skyrocketing gas prices. I suggest a scheme which may seem hair-brained, but with our huge pool of technocrats and IITs, I’m sure it will work. I suggest that our IITs be asked to work on a technology to bottle liquefied gobar gas in small LPG cylinders -- like says 5 kg ones. The pilot scheme can be tried out in the hundreds of cow shelters in the country. If it works, the cow shelters will be self-supporting or ‘atmanirbhar’.
