Despite high economic growth and technological progress in many spheres such as nuclear energy, space and information and communication technologies, rural women still continue to cook as they did centuries ago or even millennia ago. Five year plans spend lakhs of crores in the energy sector allocating funds for coal, oil,gas, renewable and nuclear energy, yet these funds do not solve the problem of access to energy as there is no strict mandate that women must be benefited from these public expenditures. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana has a mandate to provide electricity access to every below poverty households in the country but it covers only electricity. For cooking fuels they continue to rely primarily on biomass as NSSO (2004-5) data shows verwhelmingly 84 percent rural households use non commercial energy for cooking.Women are the key agents of household management and they are mostly involved in gathering the energy resources for cooking and other household activities, therefore, for personal development too, access to modern energy appears to be quite critical. On the other hand, women's role is indispensable for energy efficiency