Cooking with biomass and coal in India is now recognized to cause major health problems, with women and children in poor populations facing the greatest risk. There are more than 10 lakh premature deaths each year from household air pollution due to polluting cooking fuels with another 1.5 lakh due to their contribution to general outdoor air pollution in the country. Although the fraction of the Indian population using clean cooking fuels, such as LPG, natural gas and electricity, is slowly rising, the number using polluting solid fuels as their primary cooking fuel has remained static for nearly 30 years at about 70 crore. Which of the following is the most crucial and logical inference that can be made from the above passage?
Rural people are giving up the use of polluting solid fuels due to their increasing awareness of health hazards.
Subsidizing the use of clean cooking fuels will solve the problem of India's indoor air pollution.
India should increase its import of natural gas and produce more electricity.
Access to cooking gas can reduce premature deaths in poor households.
The passage highlights the health risks associated with cooking using biomass and coal, noting over 10 lakh premature deaths annually due to household pollution from these fuels. It further indicates that only a small fraction of Indians use cleaner cooking fuels like LPG and electricity. Therefore, the most logical inference is that providing access to cleaner fuel sources such as cooking gas could reduce premature deaths in impoverished households. Option (a) is dismissed because it is not mentioned in the passage. Option (b) lacks explanation within the passage. Option (c) is irrelevant to the content provided in the passage.
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