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The rural Haryana has vast population of small and large domestic animals mainly buffalo, cattle, sheep and goat. The state has huge unexploited potential of domestic animals waste which can be utilized as resource to address the energy crisis and to enhance the income of rural population. The utilization of domestic manure as resource rather than waste offers numerous social, agriculture, energy and environmental benefits. It plays a key role to achieve social and food security, support socio-economic development, ensure self employment and play an indispensible role in poverty elimination and rural prosperity. In this study, a framework for utilizing domestic waste as resource to address energy crisis and to enhance income of rural population a case study of district Jhajjar, Haryana is presented. Firstly, efforts have been made to assess domestic animal residue of large and small animals for district Jhajjar, Haryana. The corresponding biogas potential of livestock residue is estimated and corresponding equivalent fuel option is determined to address the energy crisis and to enhance the income of rural population Haryana. It is obvious from present study that district Jhajjar has possibility of generating animal manure of 3,351,068 kg which results in 120638.45 m3of biogas and 150798 kW of electricity resulting in saving of money by utilization of livestock manure as resource.