Ujjwala beneficiaries can get free domestic cooking gas cylinder till September

Ujjwala beneficiaries can get free domestic cooking gas cylinder till September:

      The Union cabinet approved an extension till end September for availing free cooking gas cylinders under the marquee Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojona (PMUY).

       The earlier announced Pradhan Matri Garib Kalyan Yojona (PMGKY) package included providing women of 83 million below poverty line (BPL) families with free cooking gas cylinders for three monthsunder the Ujjwala scheme.

      Given that the approved scheme was to end in June, the petroleum ministry proposed for time extension by three months for the Ujjwala beneficiaries to avail the free cylinders.

        Pradhan Matri Ujjwala Yojona:    Pradhan mantri Ujjwala Yojona is a scheme of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas for providing LPG connections to women from Belowv Poverty Line(BPL) households. Under the scheme, an adult women member of a below poverty line family identified through the socio-Economic Caste Census(SECC) is given a deposit-free LPG connection with financial assistance of Rs. 1600/- per connection by the center. Under this yojona, 8 Cr cooking gas connection were provided to poor women in less than 3 years. Recently Himachal Pradesh is the first state in the country achieve the goal set by prime minister Narendra Modi during the launch of Ujjwala Yojona for providing a cooking gas connection to every household in the country.