Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Free LPG Connections for BPL Women

Government of India has taken an initiative step in favor of public who are still using Chulha. Prime Minister of India had announced a scheme for the people who are still cooking meal by breathing harmful smoke. According to WHO, 5 Lakhs die every year due to heart disease, pulmonary diseases etc.

For the care for these people, the government has launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana for providing LPG connections for the women of BPL families. The scheme will help the women to stay away from the harmful smoke which comes from Chulha and which is injurious to health.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the PM Ujjwala Yojana on 1st May at Ballia in Uttar Pradesh and Dahod in Gujarat on May 15. The reason behind the launch of the scheme is to reduce the number of deaths in India due to unclean cooking fuels and the indoor pollution. This is the main cause of acute respiratory illnesses in young children.

The government will spend a money saved from 1.13 crore LPG gas users on Pradhan Mantri Ujjjwala Yojana. The amount is saved by the government from cooking gas users who giving up their subsidies under the Give-It-Up campaign. From the launch of Give-It-Up campaign, everyday number of people have giving-up their subsidy on LPG connection. The government launched the Give-It-Up campaign in 2015 and from the day of the launch, the government saved around 1.13 crore. The people who have given-up their LPG gas subsidy are buying the LPG gas cylinder at the market price.

According to the information, the government will provide around 5 crore LPG connections to the BPL households for which a budget outlay of Rs. 8000 crore is proposed by the government. The scheme has target to cover all the BPL families under the scheme within three years. The scheme will be opened till for 2019 and will be implemented on yearly based plan such as for 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19. In the first year for 2016-17, around 1.5 crore BPL households will be covered under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana.

As per the information, for 2016-17 the government has a budgetary provision of Rs. 2000 crore.

The government will provide a central assistance of Rs. 1600 for LPG connection to each households and the amount will be directly transferred to the bank account of the eligible beneficiaries. PM Ujjwala Yojana will be empowering the women and their health.

The information of the scheme is available in Hindi language can be obtained from Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in Hindi