Socio Economic Change After Using Improved Cooking Stoves(ICS) A Case Study Of Deumai Municipality Ward No 9, Jitpur, Ilam, District

Abstract

The study entitled was carried out in Socio-economic Change After Using Improved Cooking Stoves(ICS) on Rural Community:A Case Study of Deumai Municipality Ward No 9, Jitpur of Ilam,and district. In this topic we try to analyze the analyses financial requirements and cost of ICS, identify health impact on women and children and study the consumption of forest preservation of the study area. For the study, Improved Cooking Stoves (ICS) installed households were selected randomly including both men and women. The study covers only one wardNo9, of Deumai Municipality Ilam district.The study was based on primary as well as secondary sources of information. The secondary information was collected from previous researches, journals, publications and related materials of ICS. The research technique included household survey, interview with key informants and field observation. The study included the fuel wood consumption at the household level, impact on the health of women and children, time saving on collection of fuel wood and cooking and natural resource conservation for the sustainability in environment. As the universe of the study, there were 945households in the study area among the total95households (10percent)were selected to conduct the study. For the research design of the study, exploratory and descriptive research design is used to assess impact of ICS in the sampled household. Household survey, field visit and observation, focused group discussion was conducted to get the actual information from the respondents household to get the primary data. The secondary data was also collected from previous research,journals, publications and related documents related to the study. Finally, based on the field survey report,people feel that pollution has been reduced such has indoor air pollution due to smoke coming out from traditional stoves. The pots do not get black due to smoke and takes less time to clean. Therefore, mostly women and children are relief from the problem due to smoke, dust resulting good sanitation and reduction in their work without any compromised. Thus, the impact of the ICS has seen positive in Deumai Municipality Ward No 9, Jitpur of Ilam District, which is the neighboring Municipality Ward of District Headquarter Impact of ICS on firewood consumption, in cooking time, on health and environment and forest conservation is clearly visible in Deumai Municipal Ward No 9 Jitpur. This directly decreases the collection time of fuel wood. The study revealed that fuel wood collection time was reduced. Time is also saved from improved cooking stoves. The average time saved during cooking was compared to the traditional stoves. The health problems were reduced resulting less medical expenses. Using of ICS has contributed significantly in forest conservation as reduction in fuel wood collection, decrease in illegal tree felling, decreased in fire wood sale and forest was seen denser in Deumai Municipality Ward No 9, Jitpur. People feel that pollution has been reduced such has indoor air pollution due to smoke coming out from traditional stoves. The pots do not get black due to smoke and takes less time to clean. So, women were got relief from the problem of smoke and dust seen good sanitation and reduction in their work drudgeries.Thus, it can be concluded that the positive impact of the ICS is seen in Municipality Ward No 9, Jitpur of Ilam District.