Yuva Rural Association (YRA) is grass root NGO and is committed to a social transformation through socio-economic and political empowerment of the poor and marginalized, focusing on Dalits, tribal, minorities and women in rural areas by establishing their access to resources and human rights that will promote social harmony, ecological balance and enable them to negotiate with State and Market.
There are social, environmental and economic benefits that contribute to sustainable development.
Social benefits:
- Reduces drudgery to women and children who spend long hours and travel long distances to collect fuel
- Reduces indoor air pollution, thus eliminating health hazards for women and
- The project provides security of energy supply
- It leads to better manure management, thus keeping the surroundings clean and reducing some of the disease-causing pathogens
- Children will be able to attend school in time as food will be cooked in
Environmental benefits:
- Improves the local environment by reducing uncontrolled deforestation in the project area
- Avoids local environmental pollution through better waste management
- lead to soil improvement by providing high-quality manure
- Avoided global and local environmental pollution and environmental degradation by switching from non-renewable biomass to renewable energy, leading to a reduction of GHG emissions
- Reduces deforestation, reduces indoor air pollution, and increases the use of manure rather than chemical
Economic benefits:
- Higher productivity of family members as they have an adequate cooking fuel supply
- Will employ local communities through the construction and maintenance of biogas
- Reduce cooking time, thus providing women to take up income generating
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