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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.

Original BJP ‘killed’ by present crop: Uddhav

Mumbai: As the Marathi-Hindi fracas continued to rage with threats and counter-threats, Shiv Sena (UBT) President and ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party, its erstwhile saffron partner.

 

“This is not the BJP we know… The original BJP which was in alliance with the (undivided) Shiv Sena has been killed by the present leaders,” declared Thackeray, responding to threats from certain Hindi-speaking leaders.

 

Reiterating that he was not opposed to Hindi but to its compulsion in Maharashtra schools, he added that the current BJP which is controlling the reins of the party has been ‘taking people from other parties to bolster its strength’.

 

On the sharp reactions from some north-Indian leaders, Thackeray said that the foundations of the BJP leaders like Girish Mahajan are on fire after the coming together of the two cousins, including Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray.

 

“They have gone to such an extent that they are comparing Marathis with the terrorists of the (April 22) massacre in Pahalgam. They could not save the Hindus there, now they are siding with those perpetrating injustice to Marathi. These (leaders) are the real ‘killers’ of Marathi,” Thackeray said grimly.

 

“Why can’t you trace the terrorists of the Pahalgam killings… where are they, have they joined the BJP? We have been opposing the imposition of Hindi. We are the Shiv Sena and my Sainiks go to help people without asking their caste or religion,” he asserted.

 

He was referring to the statements of BJP state Minister Ashish Shelar on the Pahalgam incident where the extremists asked caste-religion before targeting the victims, and how Hindus are being attacked here after asking about their language.

 

Thackeray dismissed Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ reactions that the Saturday coming together of Uddhav-Raj was a gathering of ‘rudaalis’ (female weepers), terming it as an outcome of ‘deranged mentality’.

 

Other SS (UBT) leaders like Sushma Andhare, Kishori Pednekar, Vaibhav Naik, and Vasant More joined in Thackeray’s attack on the BJP including its Godda (Jharkhand) MP Nishikant Dubey who has issued purported threats to the Thackeray kin.

 

Among other things, Dubey said that the people here survive on ‘their’ money, there are no industries here, if they have the courage to attack those who speak Hindi then they must also beat up those who speak Urdu, Tamil, Telugu.

 

“You people survive ono our money. If you are such a bully, then step out of Maharashtra… Come to Bihar or Uttar Pradesh. We shall clobber (patak patak ke maarenge) you here,” warned Dubey.

 

Pednekar sarcastically asked ‘who is this Dubey’; Naik issued a quiet threat saying ‘let him come to Mumbai, we shall show him how the Marathis speak’; More flashed a bamboo stick saying ‘it is for them’, while Andhare remarked if the BJP will finish Dube or vice-versa’.

 

Strangely, after a fiery speech at the Saturday victory rally - for reasons not clear - the MNS has suddenly gone silent with hardly any reactions to the latest onslaught on the Thackerays, confounding political circles.

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