Pradhan mantri Ujjwala Yojn Byjus

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The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) is a government scheme launched in 2016 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The scheme envisages the distribution of 50 million LPG connections to women below the poverty line. It was launched with a budget allocation of Rs. 80 billion. A total of 22 million LPG connections were distributed during the first year of its launch.

Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Quick Facts:

Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Date of Launching 1st May 2016

Launched By PM Narendra Modi

Government Ministry Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Benefits of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

As per the estimates of the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 5 lakh deaths in India occurred due to unclean cooking fuel. These deaths were caused mostly due to non-communicable diseases including heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer. Providing LPG connections to families below the poverty line will ensure universal coverage of cooking gas in the country. The scheme can be a tool for women empowerment in that LPG connections and clean cooking fuel can reduce cooking time and effort, and in most of India, cooking is a responsibility shouldered solely by women. The scheme also provides employment to the rural youth in the supply chain of cooking gas.

Some of the major benefits provided by Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana are:

 It provides five crore LPG connections to families below the poverty line.

 Financial support of Rs 1600 is provided by the scheme for each LPG connection for BPL

households. The administrative cost of this support will be provided by the Government…

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