Association of Socio-Economic Characteristics of Rural Women with their Knowledge of Non-Conventional Energy Appliances

It has been reported that even after the sixty three years of independence too many difficulties faced by rural women. Science and technology solves all the challenges faced by rural women including labour-saving technologies related to domestic work such as, improved cooking technologies, lighting etc. Keeping this in view a study was conducted in the two villages namely Achitpur and Chota Mirzapur Khurd of Jamalpur Block of Mirzapur District to find out the association/relationship of personal and socio-economic characteristics of respondents with their knowledge of non-conventional energy sources.