New Delhi: The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas will host a ‘Clean Cooking Ministerial’ during the highly anticipated India Energy Week 2025, taking place from February 11-14. This side event aims to enhance collaborative efforts to globally promote clean cooking solutions, providing India with an opportunity to share insights and best practices from its successful Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), which could serve as a model for tackling similar challenges worldwide.
Initiated in May 2016, the PMUY is a flagship program designed to make clean cooking fuels like LPG accessible to rural and underprivileged households that typically rely on traditional fuels such as firewood, coal, and cow-dung cakes. The use of these traditional fuels has harmful effects on the health of rural women and poses environmental risks.
India Energy Week 2025, taking place at Yashobhoomi in Dwarka, New Delhi, is expected to be a significant global energy event, recognized as the second-largest in terms of attendance, exhibition, and sessions, according to Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas. This marks the third edition of the event, which will feature over 500 speakers, including prominent international figures, highlighting the conference’s increasing importance on the global stage.
The event will showcase 10 country pavilions from leading nations such as the US, UK, Russia, Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands, along with eight thematic zones focused on hydrogen, renewables, biofuels, and petrochemicals. Attendance is expected from over 20 Foreign Energy Ministers or Deputy Ministers, as well as Heads of International Organizations and 90 CEOs from Fortune 500 energy companies.