The project involves promotion of improved cooking stoves (ICS) to the people of socially deprived community; specifically to the Dalits (the so called untouchables) and Janajatis (indigenous people). The project intends to avail the households with clean cooking solutions; thereby, displacing the less efficient traditional cooking stoves from the kitchen with stoves of better efficiency. Replacement of the traditional cooking stoves with ICS will reduce the exposure of the family members, specifically women, to the indoor air pollution and therefore result in saving of health related expenses. Each stoves disseminated under the project will potentially reduce the firewood consumption by half.