Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
05 Oct 2023 3 mins Download PDF
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 1st May 2016 to 99.8% on 1st April 2021.
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