PM Narendra Modi Launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

BENGALURU: Prime Minister launches the much-anticipated LPG scheme in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh. While inaugurating the scheme PM said that until 2019, more than five crore poor families will be benefitted from this cooking gas scheme. The government is intending to provide free LPG connections to the families living in below poverty line within next three years.

According to the PM, the gas connections provided by this scheme will help in reducing the living cost of each family along with lead to better health for women. One more plus point of the scheme is that the subsidies provided by the government will directly transfer in the Jan Dhan account of the family’s head woman.

The central government claims that with the help of this scheme they are focused on providing LPG connections to BPL families and it will ensure the country’s universal coverage of the cooking gas. It will empower women along with protecting them for medical instabilities. It will decrease labor and cooking time. This scheme will engage rural youth in cooking gas supply chain that will provide them employment.

According to government measures, this scheme will provide a financial aid of Rs 1,600 to every LPG connection connected to the BPL families. The BPL families will be identified by consulting with Union Territories and state governments. Mr. Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister, announced the Rs 2000 crore provision in Budget 2016 during the FY 2016-17 for providing deposit free LPG connections to more than 1.5 crore BPL families.

The Rs 8,000 crore scheme will be partly funded by leveraging the money saved from ‘Give It Up’ initiative by PM, in which about 1.13 crore users voluntarily gave up LPG subsidies. This campaign saved more than Rs 5,000 crore and it will be used in providing gas connections to poor families. Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra are the states that sum about half peoples giving up LPG subsidy.

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