An educational institution in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, cooks over 500 meals daily using two 45-cubic-metre biogas plants, eliminating the need for LPG cylinders amid supply concerns. With 220 cows providing dung and organic slurry, the campus is self-reliant in cooking gas and promotes organic farming under the state’s Institutional Biogas Plant Scheme.

Ahmedabad: An educational institution in Gujarat has been preparing more than 500 meals daily using biogas, eliminating the need for LPG cylinders, under the state’s Institutional Biogas Plant Scheme, officials said.

The institution has become self-reliant in cooking gas, amid its supply concerns due to the ongoing West Asia conflict.

At Shrimati Manekba Vinay Vihar Educational Complex in Gandhinagar, food is cooked twice every day for around 250 students, while about 15 families on the campus also use the fuel for cooking, a government release said on Saturday.

The campus operates two biogas plants of 45 cubic metres each, with a total capacity of 90 cubic metres per day, it added.