Bangladesh can save around Tk 35,00 crore and around 46,000 lives annually, and avoid the emission of nearly six crore tones of Carbon Dioxide only by bringing nearly 3 crore households under the use of improved cooking stoves, popularly known as 'Bondhu Chula'. A study conducted by the DoE and GIZ shows that Bangladeshi households on average burn about 80 million tones of biomass like wood, rice husks, leaves, cow dung, jute sticks and other agricultural waste, every year for cooking, and they mostly use inefficient and poorly ventilated clay stoves that produce smokes, carbon monoxide, and carcinogens. The World Health Organization has estimated that 46,000 women and children die each year in Bangladesh as a direct result of exposure to indoor air pollution caused by the smokes of the cooking stoves, while millions more suffer from respiratory diseases, tuberculosis, asthma, cardiovascular disease, eye problems, and lung cancer. Under the circumstances, the DoE and GIZ with help of Bondhu Foundation have set a target to replace the traditional clay stoves with eco-friendly and fuel-saving Bondhu Chula by 2021. In this regard Pratham Alo with collaboration of GIZ and Bondhu Foundation arranged a roundtable discussion at Pratham Alo office on 15 June 2016. Dr. Ainun Nishat, Professor Emeritus, C3ER, BRAC University, was invited as special guest.