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Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

05 Oct,2023 Download Pdf 3 Min Read

Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

It was launched by the Government of India in 2016 to provide free LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) connections to women from below-poverty-line households.
The objective of the scheme was to make clean cooking fuel such as LPG available to the rural and deprived households and discourage usage of traditional cooking fuels.
Use of traditional cooking fuels had detrimental impacts on the health of rural women as well as on the environment.
The scheme aimed to achieve the target of establishing 8 Crore LPG Connections to the deprived households by March 2020.
Ujjwala 2.0, with an additional allocation of 1.6 Crore LPG Connections was launched with special facility to migrant households.
The LPG coverage has increased from 62% on 1^st May 2016 to 99.8% on 1^st April 2021.

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