Bio-gas in India

Dear friends

How are you? I am fine. In your organisation how are you? In my family all fine. My name is Uma Devi. At home all call me only Uma.  My age is 15 years old. I am female child. My village name is Keppllingampalty. My state is Tamil-Nadu in one of the Kamaraj Districts. Our village situation is at 25 km away from Karriapatti. I am one of the children in my village who are sponsored through PLAN International in the UK.

My family members are six only. My father Arasappan, mother Rakki, and elder brother Boomi Rajan, are farmers. First elder brother, Selvakumaresam, is working as honey bee field worker. He had participated in honey bee training organised by ASSEFA/PLAN. My elder sister, Gupera, is studying BSc (Degree Course) at Maduri, and distance from our village is 53 km.

In my family all want to help our village and all want work in government jobs. In our village all want economic development, to improve education and government job. In our village people have a loving heart. Some people have bad habits.

In my house monthly earn only 1500Rs. In the garden my brother monthly earns only 1000Rs. My favourite subject is maths and physics. I help my mother in domestic work, clearing the house, vessel and fetching water. I would like to collect plant life in my spare time. My ambition and goal is engineer.

Near my village is Keela Alginallur village. One of the families has bio-gas. The head family member told me about bio-gas. Bio-gas is very important for the whole world. Bio-gas is generated from the cattle waste. The gas is generated from the doom and it is passed through a pipe connected to the stove in the houses. As follows they told how bio-gas works. Methane is produced in the bio-gas palnt which comes out in a blue flame in the stove which has great heating capacity. But, when we used fire-wood it will have a yellow flame which does not generate heat quickly. In the bio-gas they have many useful things. The bio-gas has no wasting time as well as how quickly the finest cooking works. With wood the vessel has black dust. The bio-gas vessels are not having the black dust. At that time help to women’s health. Moreover, when we use the firewood, the smoke emanating from the fire sppoils the walls and also the human beings. In bio-gas we stop the cutting of trees and help the rain falls and the environment. 

In the village the help for the farmers that went out for fire wood and returned to the houses and could not cook at quick time as for bio-gas. Useful quick for the cooking and gives the wood and health for the farmers. In our village also one family has bio-gas plant for which ASSEFA/PLAN has provided financial support for. This scheme is very useful for the village people. The family say that they now spend less money in cooking and their time is saved like anything. We spend money on solid fuel gas, petrol gas, kerosene gas and fire wood. We could spend the money for the bio-gas

I would like now many thanks for you and your organisations because I wrote this essay.

With Regards

Yours affectionately