Improved Woodstoves in Udaipur - Helping Women and Environment

SEVA MANDIR, is a NGO working for the development of rural and tribal population in Udaipur and Rajsamand districts of Southern Rajasthan. The project activity is to replace the existing inefficient traditional cook stoves used by communities with efficient fuel wood single pan CHULIKA cook stoves based on rocket stove design. It will be implemented in Kherwada Tehsil, Udaipur District, Rajasthan, a drought prone, biomass deficient region of India. By reducing fuel wood consumption, the project activity reduces 2.35 t of CO2/yr/family in this region and prevents 42,956 tCO2 emissions/yr by implementing CHULIKA stoves in 19,500 households and a total of 429,556 tonnes of CO2 for a period of 10 years. Implementation of the project depends on the successful validation and registration of the project as a CDM project activity since the project will be financed completely from carbon revenues. The CHULIKA will be implemented in the project area only after the registr