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Biogas use gains momentum Our Correspondent, Gaibandha

Currently, around 30 rural families use biogas instead of firewood forcooking

Biogas, a low-cost alternative fuel produced from perishable wastage, which isused for cooking, has become popular among people in different areas of Gaibandha district.

Sources said the people of the area who had never had gas to cook with, can now use the gas forall domestic purposes.

Currently, around 30 rural families use biogas instead of firewood for cooking.

The Gaibandha Municipality, Practical Action, Bangladesh (PA,B) and Chhinnomul Mahila Samityhave been jointly implementing the long-term project since 2011.

The plant has been set up by spending Tk17,00,000. Some 17 workers collect 1,500 kg ofwastage from the people in the municipality area and 30 cubic gas is produced daily from thatwaste.

Though many of the people are unaware of the production of biogas from waste, it provedeffective when it was made operational in the municipality.

Housewife Roksana Begum of Baniarjan in Gaibandha municipality area has been using a biogas-run stove for cooking for the last two years.

Roksana said her husband Farid Mondal, a local high school teacher, took the biogas connectionfrom the samity that is providing the service.

“We have been getting a supply of biogas that lasts for five hours per day and have been payingTk600 per month as a service fee to the service provider.”

“Cooking with a biogas-run stove is better than a wood-run stove as smoke and soot are notemitted by the biogas-run stove. It is also cheaper than wood-run stove. “It costs more than Tk600to cook using a wood-run stove. Hence, we feel better in using the biogas-run stove”, said the

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A woman cooks with biogas in Baniarjaan area of Gaibandha town yesterday

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Morsheda Begum, Jahanara, Shamim Ara and Azhar in the area echoed Roksana’s views. MayorMohammad Shamsul Alam lauded the initiative to produce biogas from waste and provide it topeople to cook with.

He assured that, on behalf of his institution, he would provide all the support that he could.

“We have a double advantage. The collection of wastage is helping to keep our environmentclean, and the biogas, produced from the wastage, is meeting our cooking needs. So it isdefinitely better for us,” said Shamsul Alam.

The mayor hoped that the government and other non-government and private organisations willcome forward to produce biogas and expand the service countrywide.

Mursidur Rahman Khan, executive director of the samity, said: “Biogas production through acombined waste management system is a momentous initiative taken by the organisationsworking for the improvement of the urban and rural environments.”

“We plan to expand the business,” he said.

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