India, Feb. 20 -- The study underscores the immediate need for a transition to cleaner fuels in Northeast Indian states

Researchers at theIndian Institute of Technology Mandi(IIT Mandi), in collaboration with Institut National de Recherche et de Securite (INRS), France, and the National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), India, have conducted a comprehensive study on the detrimental effects of indoor air pollution resulting from traditional cooking practices in rural kitchens across three Northeast Indian states and a series of three papers, a research team from IIT Mandi comprising of Bijay Sharma, Ph.D. scholar, and Dr Sayantan Sarkar, Assistant Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and his collaborators analysed the ext...