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Name of the Project: Gulbarga Biogas Project
Gulbarga Biogas Project (CPA) under Biodigester Programme
of Activity (PoA) SKG Sangha India, GOLD STANDARD LOCAL
STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION REPORT
Non-Technical Summary
Location of the Project: Villages in all the taluks in Gulbarga, Bidar and Yadgir Districts,
Karnataka State, INDIA.
SKG Sangha is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working on various sustainable
development projects in different States of India. SKG Sangha has already successfully
implemented over 100,000 biogas units in India in the last 17 years. The proposed project will
provide biogas units to households in the locations mentioned above in India.
In the rural areas of Karnataka, energy demands are generally met with the use of firewood,
charcoal and Kerosene. Also, the rural areas being the agricultural zone, many of the households at
least have a few cattle to carry out the farming activities. Therefore, harmful greenhouse gases like
the carbon dioxide are emitted by the use of firewood/kerosene for cooking/ heating purposes and
methane gas is emitted from the unmanaged cattle excretes. SKG Sangha has taken the initiative
to reduce these greenhouse gas emissions in the environment by implementing the biodigester
project in the rural areas. The aim of the project is to reduce the amount of firewood / kerosene
used for cooking and to replace inefficient traditional cooking stoves with cleaner biogas stoves.
The project will also reduce methane emissions from cattle excreta that will be used to generate the
biogas. This shows that the project will contribute strongly to the sustainable development of the
rural households participating in the project.
The biogas technology to be implemented is tried and tested in the country. In each of the
households covered by the proposed project a family size biogas unit will be installed. The biogas
unit will be of either 2m 3 or 3m 3 capacity (4 to 6 hours of burning time per burner a day) depending
on the number and type of cattle owned by the household and the number of people in the
household. The units will be monitored and maintained for a period of 10 years under this project.
The beneficiary has to provide locally available material and labour as his share of contribution and
the balance of the unit cost will be met out of the carbon funds and subsidy from the Government of
India.
SKG Sangha is conducting stakeholder consultation meeting to collect the opinion of the various
stake holders, on 15/9/2011 at 11.00 am in Rangamandira, Department of Kannada and Culture,
Government of Karnataka, in Bidar Town.
iii. Invitation tracking table
[See Toolkit 2.6 and Toolkit Annex J]
Table 2.8
Gold Standard Passport version 2.1 July 2009
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