Explanation:

 Biomass is an important renewable source of energy that accounts for nearly 75% of rural energy needs, and the rural population constitutes 70% of the total population of India. Although biomass meets a major part of the total energy requirements, it does not find an appropriate place in the overall energy balance of India, probably due to versatility and diversity of biomass sources, resulting in insufficient availability of documented data about availability, consumption and utilization patterns.

Under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has developed an electronic atlas, which provides an outlook of the biomass resources in the country with special reference to their potential for power generation. The Biomass Atlas is a graphical atlas of all the states in India with demography and landuse details at state, district and taluka levels.