The use of liquefi ed petroleum gas as a clean cooking fuel increased dramatically between 2007-08 and 2009-10. Its use in rural areas is still confi ned to a minority, but this is changing rapidly. The situation now is very different from that portrayed in "Subsidies for Whom? The Case of LPG in India" (EPW, 3 November 2012), which used dated information from 2004-05 for its analysis.
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