India Government’s LPG policy: from the perspective of public health.

Government of India headed by the economist Dr. Manmohan Singh has recently made a massive price hike of LPG for both domestic use and commercial use. The policy of subsidizing LPG has gone through wide changes. Henceforth only six cylinders of domestic LPG will be available to each family at subsidized rate per year and extra cylinders will have to be purchased at more than double price. How much economics or politics are lying behind this change of policy or the protests against it is not the subject of this article. Rather let us look into the matter from a different perspective; what is the impact of this policy on public health and environment.