SDG 7 AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY SDG 7
SDG 7: AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY SDG 7 and Gender Involvement Case Studies for India Daksha Vaja Adviser Regional Community Science Centre Vadodara, India Capacity Building of WMG Members Webinar for HLPF 2018 June 29, 2018
Achieving Energy for All • Therefore achieving energy is crucial Essential for improving livelihoods health gender equality and education along with technology cost reductions, is making energy access within reach for more people than ever. – But clean cooking continues to lag behind: inter-linkages with other SDGs, especially gender, climate, health and local communities, are especially important. – – 07/01/18 2
The Ujjwala Scheme: A Game Changer Are cleaner cooking fuels affordable and accessible? Yes as women prefer cooking on LPG, for two reasons: affordability and availability. • The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh on May 1, 2016 in an attempt to empower BPL women in rural areas with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders. • Starting in 2015, the Government of India and three oil marketing companies in the country embarked on three programmes to actively promote LPG to the poor —each pioneering, aggressive and relying on both sophisticated social marketing and what is summarized as JAM (electronic bank accounts or Jan Dhan, biometric ID cards or Aadhaar, and mobile phones). • Against the target of 15 million LPG connections, 22 million connections were distributed • overall 712 districts covered and providing approximately 32 million connections. 07/01/18 3
Case Study 2 The Ujjwala Scheme: Components • Pahal, shifted the payment of fuel subsidy to people’s bank accounts and thus all LPG is now sold at international rates in the market, greatly reducing its diversion to the non-household sector. • 15. 2 crore Registered Consumers (out of 16. 6 crore Active Consumers) – 91. 5%. • World’s largest Cash Transfer programme Rs. 30, 000 cr transferred so far. • 10. 5 cr transactions in the month of Feb, 2016 alone • 7. 3 cr transactions in all other DBT Schemes combined in last 11 months. • Cash Transfer Failure rate has come down from 1. 81% in Feb, 2015 to 0. 24% in Feb, 2016. • 07/01/18 4
Case Study 2 The Ujjwala Scheme: A Game Changer • Give it Up, persuaded middle-class households to give up their subsidies. • Ujjwala, provided free connections to a total of 50 million poor households by 2019. – More than 83 lakh LPG consumers are part of ‘Give It Up’ Campaign Give Back’ – BPL connections – 55 lakh 07/01/18 5
Ujjwala. Women Development to Women-led Development India expects to cover 90% per cent of all households early next decade, although the official target is 80 % by 2019. 07/01/18 6
Conclusion • India has taken steps forward in the right direction towards achieving the targets set under the umbrella of SDG 7 and challenges galore. • Centre and the states governments needs – to identify the gender gaps – acknowledge them – undertake appropriate and timely measures – to the much-needed headway towards providing Universal Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable and Modern 07/01/18 “ENERGY” is the spirit! 7
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