** Shares of India's EKI Energy Services EKIE.BO up 6.6%,
after rising as much as 13.7% earlier in the day
** Co has registered and verified first-ever improved
biomass cookstove project in Asia, it said
** Project aims to provide cookstoves to rural and
economically disadvantaged households in six states
** EKIE neither disclosed likely financial gains from the
project to exchanges nor immediately responded to Reuters'
inquiry about the same
** Trading vols 4.6x 30-day avg
** YTD, stock has fallen 19.5%
(Reporting by Hritam Mukherjee in Bengaluru)
((Hritam.Mukherjee@thomsonreuters.com;))