After trying various business options, Delhi School of
Engineering alumni Neha Juneja and Ankit Mathur hit upon creating a cooking
stove for rural households. They registered Greenway Grameen Infra (GGI) in
2010 and started selling the Greenway smart stove the following year. Compared
to the mud chulha used by 160 million rural households in India, the GGI stove
burns 70% less fuel and has much less emission. “There is a Rs.10,000 crore
market for such products,” says Juneja.
The cost of a chulha is Rs.1,250 and GGI had sold some 6,000 so
far. At present, GGI works as a social enterprise in collaboration with various
institutes and NGOs. Next on the cards is a bigger, better version of the GGI
smart stove. “Our new stove will be much cleaner and will be exactly like using
LPG,” says Juneja. Also on the cards is a device to covert waste heat into
electricity.
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