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CLASSRONOM 5
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Read the following passage carefully.
BIOGAS: SLOW-TRACK ANSWER TO ENERGY NEEDS
It certainly does not fall in the category of the highly acclaimed 'fast-track' energy projects. Nor
does it have the economic backing of a multinational corporation. And yet, biogas alone can
perhaps provide a permanent answer to India's burgeoning energy crisis.
(2) At a time when India is looking westwards, inviting all kinds of environmentally-unsound
energy options, a simple time-tested rural-friendly technology that could easily emerge as the
energy saviour has been gradually discarded. The potential and efficacy of the indigenous biogas
technology was never in doubt. But since the technology was not imported and was not backed
by a donor agency or a multinational company, it did not find favour with the policy makers.
With the focus shifting to supercomputers and other imported sophisticated technologies,
biogas was soon pushed to the files. The trend continued during the following years. Such was
the growing indifference to a proven technology that even the Planning Commission made no
sincere effort to revert back to the biogas programme.
(4) By the time the economic restructuring began, the biogas programme was all but forgotten. With a
sizable percentage of the 1.7 million installed biogas plants remaining inoperative, the gigantic
task of providing energy to the country's 70 percent population was left to the Ministry of Non-
Conventional Energy Sources (MNES). And under pressure from the World Bank and the IMF, the
government simultaneously began slashing the subsidy on biogas. But unlike other energy sources,
except for hydel generation, biogas is a renewable energy resource and needs to be encouraged. The
multifarious advantages that biogas offers to a rural household are well-known. And yet, no
systematic effort was ever made to document the progress and identify the bottlenecks.
But while India dithers and falters on popularising an indigenous technology, neighbouring China
has gone far ahead. It has at present more than 6 million biogas plants, most of them in working
condition. Over the years the biogas delivery mechanism has been privatised. India, too will have to
diversify the biogas production and make it more economically sound as well as productive.
(6) It is, therefore, time to reinvest in the biogas. Market economy and globalisation will not be able
to provide an easy answer to the growing energy crisis. The real answer, has to come from the
rural areas. A need based infrastructure with an equal emphasis on research and maintenance
can plug the loopholes. After all, biogas plants release valuable manure in addition to the energy
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need of a rural family. It reduces the dependence on the chemical fertilisers while at the same
time keeping the environment safe and clean.
The Hindustan Times (Abridged)​

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