Bishnupur becomes Assam's first smokeless kitchen village | Guwahati News
A hoarding describes Bishnupur as a smokeless kitchen village SILCHAR: All 70 households in Cachar’s Bishnupur forest village now have a unique cooking stove made of soil, cow dung and rice husk. It not only consumes 40% less firewood but also provides 100% smokeless kitchens in the village. Last week, the environment and forest department officially declared it as the first smokeless village in Assam. According to the Union health ministry, 83% of women living in rural India die because of inhalation of smoke in the kitchen. The first smokeless village in Assam is a part of an initiative...
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