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Prithvi Asthana

20 August 2025 at 5:20:30 pm

Desi method saves LPG at RSS camp

Use of biomass wood stove helped in reducing high cooking cost Mumbai: When the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) decided to hold a 21-day training camp in Jalgaon in the first week of May one of the biggest concerns for the organisers was availability of fuel. The organisation needed two LPG cylinders of 19 kg each for making three meals for 255 participants and 50 managers daily. It would have cost them Rs 6,000 daily and the cost for 21 days on meals on would have touched Rs 1,26,000. It...

Desi method saves LPG at RSS camp

Use of biomass wood stove helped in reducing high cooking cost Mumbai: When the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) decided to hold a 21-day training camp in Jalgaon in the first week of May one of the biggest concerns for the organisers was availability of fuel. The organisation needed two LPG cylinders of 19 kg each for making three meals for 255 participants and 50 managers daily. It would have cost them Rs 6,000 daily and the cost for 21 days on meals on would have touched Rs 1,26,000. It was a time when availability of LPG cylinders was a concern and a costly affair. India’s LPG supply was hit because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The government had hiked the price of commercial LPG cylinder by Rs 993. Then came a desi solution. The RSS decided to use a biomass wood stove that uses renewable energy rather than LPG. The main fuel for this stove was ‘wooden blocks’ prepared from cotton, cow dung or turmeric trees (turkhati). The market rate of the ‘wooden bricks’ is Rs 3 per kg or Rs 150-200 per sack. An RSS swayamsevak from Dhule Rahul Kulkarni has designed this biomass wood stove. He operates an industrial machinery manufacturing company called as ‘Essential Equipments’. The company manufactures renewable energy products like solar thermal systems, bio-gas plant, biomass wood stove, etc. The biomass wood stove proved to be a high success. Its use reduced the daily cooking cost to mere Rs 300 saving around Rs 1,19,700 during the camp period. Not only it helped in reducing cost but also to protect the environment being a source of renewable energy. “We had put a lot of research and development behind this stove, and it was already available. Amid the crisis the stove came in handy to us, and I am happy that we were able to solve this problem. It helped in reducing the cost drastically,” Kulkarni told ‘The Perfect Voice’. Dattatreya Hosable, General Secretary of RSS, who visited the camp for three days, also acknowledged the innovation in cost cutting and saving environment. “I appreciate the efforts taken by the swayamsevaks amid the LPG crisis. Henceforth, RSS will use this method in training camp across the country and I myself will take this solution to all the places,” he said.

Minor domestic help found hanging in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj; police suspect she may have been 14 years old

  • PTI
  • Apr 17, 2025
  • 2 min read


NEW DELHI: A girl working as a domestic help was found hanging in the bathroom of her employer’s home in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj area, an official said on Thursday.


The police said they are trying to verify the girl’s age as her parents said that she was 17 but her employers claim she was aged around 19-20.


However, during the preliminary medical examination, police found out that the girl was 14 years old, they said.



Vasant Kunj South Police Station received a call regarding the incident on Wednesday. A team was rushed to the spot where they discovered a young woman hanging from a shower pipe in the bathroom, they said.


The girl, a native of Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli, had been working at the house for the last one-and-a-half months.


On Wednesday, she came to the house around 8 am for work. At around 4 pm, she also opened the door for the house owner, Deepak (39), when he returned home, the officer said.


“After this, Deepak, his wife, and their children went to sleep. At about 6 pm, the cook came. When the girl did not answer the doorbells, Deepak’s wife opened the door and realised that the girl was nowhere to be seen,” he added.


Eventually, they opened the bathroom door with a key after repeated knocking went unanswered and found the girl hanging from the shower pipe and called the police, he said.


The body was taken to Safdarjung Hospital for preliminary medical examination and has been kept at the mortuary, he said.


Inquest proceedings under Section 174 CrPC are underway, the officer added.


Her parents claim that she was 17. Police are verifying it, he added.

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