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INDIAN FUEL PROBLEM
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5. In South Travancore, in a Non-Brahmana middle-class family of three, a ton of air-dried firewood lats three months, the cooking being done three times a day — the after-noon cooking being of light tiffin. This gives us an average daily consumption of over 8 lbs. per person.
6. The city of Madras depends for its fuel, mainly on imports of Casnarina and jungle fuel through the Buckingham Canal, the South Indian Railway and the M. S. M. Railway. The figures for the annual
