Impact on Informal Economy and Vulnerable Communities
The LPG crisis disproportionately affected the informal economy — street food vendors, daily wage workers, migrant labourers, and small hospitality businesses — who depend on cooking gas for their livelihoods and lack the capital to adapt quickly.
- Kerala was particularly hard hit due to its high LPG penetration, tourism-linked service economy, and large urban hospitality workforce.
- Migrant workers in metros began returning to their home states as LPG scarcity made city life untenable and incomes collapsed.
- Families reverted to solid biomass fuels (firewood, cow dung cakes) — reversing years of PMUY's clean cooking gains and re-exposing them to indoor air pollution health risks.
- Vulnerable groups: hotel workers, street food vendors, domestic helpers, seafood processing units, institutional kitchen workers, and students depending on mess/dhaba meals.
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