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100			_aSekhar, R.C
245			_aCooking energy pattern in rural India and their institutional implications for energy-shed micro planning
520			_aThe paper analyses the consumption pattern of cooking energy in 221 households, in 13 villages spread throughout the country, using a detailed questionnaire having 160 items. It comes to the conclusion that cost-effective innovations unaided by rural energy planners and appropriate technologies may have helped the rural population coping with the cooking energy problems. Secondly, it uses multiple regression statistical analysis to show that energy patterns have greater homogeneity across economic classes within the same village than within economic classes across villages. Lastly it shows the desirability of leaving cooking energy planning entirely to people's initiative, thus covering 68
650			_a Rural Development
650			_a IRDP
650			_aEnergy Resources - India
773			_aThe Administrator
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