Kitchen Air Pollution in India

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Sinha, Malavika

Affiliations: Department of Geography, Chatra Ramai Pandit Mahavidyalaya, Bankura West Bengal – 722141, India. E-mail: malavikasinha@yahoo.co.in

Abstract: The discussion about the kitchen is tiny one but most effective. The function of a domestic kitchen is quite restless because it operates almost 365 days in a year. In India total number of domestic kitchens is quite higher than total Indian households. These kitchens are small food preparing industry where energy used in terms of kitchen fuel and matter in terms of food and industrial sewage occurs in the form of pollutants. Indian women on an average spend two hours per day and minimum 75 minutes per day in kitchen. This paper covers the most focal aspect of realistic picture of domestic kitchen air pollution in Indian middle class families. The exposure of air pollution is vast one. The preventive measure to combat air pollution in the kitchen is the first foot stepping of it. Here the effort has been made to make aware about the exposure of kitchen air pollution in India. This is just like the concept of charity begins at home. This paper depicts the clear picture of preventive measures to combat air pollution in a developing country (India) which has to be started from domestic kitchens.

Keywords: Indoor kitchen air pollution, biomass fuel, health significants

Journal: Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 93-98, 2015