Greentech Lead Asia: Andhra Pradesh state in India is leading in biogas installations with 10,488 households in 2012-13.
Maharashtra has the second ranking with 9,262 installations in households, according to Farooq Abdullah, minister for New & Renewable Energy.
During 2012-13 (up to January 2013), Karnataka is in third position with 8,778 households with biogas installations.
The ministry of New and Renewable Energy is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Scheme National Biogas and Manure Management Programme (NBMMP) for installation of household size biogas plants for meeting cooking fuel requirements in rural areas. The program provides for central financial assistance for setting up of biogas plants besides support for training, turn-key job fee, and communication & publicity.
|
Sl. No. |
Name of State/ UT |
Numbers of Household size Biogas Plants installed |
|||
|
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 (up to Jan. 2013) | ||
| 1 | Andhra Pradesh |
13699 |
16275 |
15346 |
10488 |
| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh |
162 |
175 |
150 |
14 |
| 3 | Assam |
10450 |
6732 |
6581 |
4335 |
| 4 | Bihar |
200 |
350 |
3285 |
— |
| 5 | Chhattisgarh |
3433 |
3832 |
4779 |
1254 |
| 6 | Goa |
31 |
18 |
65 |
21 |
| 7 | Gujarat |
10556 |
6105 |
2631 |
2482 |
| 8 | Haryana |
1422 |
1379 |
1819 |
929 |
| 9 | Himachal Pradesh |
245 |
445 |
426 |
243 |
| 10 | Jammu & Kashmir |
155 |
114 |
136 |
193 |
| 11 | Jharkhand |
1030 |
913 |
750 |
150 |
| 12 | Karnataka |
10323 |
14464 |
12363 |
8778 |
| 13 | Kerala |
4085 |
3941 |
3483 |
2047 |
| 14 | Madhya Pradesh |
15114 |
16742 |
12415 |
6584 |
| 15 | Maharashtra |
11235 |
21456 |
22220 |
9262 |
| 16 | Meghalaya |
825 |
1275 |
1390 |
170 |
| 17 | Mizoram |
50 |
100 |
100 |
461 |
| 18 | Nagaland |
605 |
1171 |
1325 |
396 |
| 19 | Odisha |
5296 |
6050 |
7186 |
2828 |
| 20 | Punjab |
7250 |
23700 |
14173 |
6735 |
| 21 | Rajasthan |
176 |
275 |
498 |
73 |
| 22 | Sikkim |
555 |
358 |
635 |
136 |
| 23 | Tamilnadu |
1740 |
1493 |
1531 |
391 |
| 24 | Tripura |
47 |
89 |
117 |
68 |
| 25 | Uttar Pradesh |
3252 |
4603 |
4759 |
1282 |
| 26 | Uttarakhand |
1225 |
2082 |
2114 |
687 |
| 27 | West Bengal |
16748 |
17000 |
19986 |
7135 |
| 28 | Delhi/ New Delhi |
– |
1 |
1 |
— |
| 29 | Pondicherry |
5 |
– |
— |
— |
|
TOTAL : |
119914 |
151138 |
140264 |
77019 |
|
The NBMMP promotes better implementation through organization of training for all stakeholders, information dissemination, and turnkey fee to turn key workers who take care of biogas plants and biogas stoves free of cost for five years. Further, the biogas plant owners have to procure the biogas cooking stoves certified by Bureau of Indian Standards, which are available either from the market or from the biogas program implementing Departments/Agencies.