-The Times of India Three years after it was launched, subsidised LPG scheme has massive reach but has not got most beneficiaries off traditional fuel like firewood and cow dung cake NEW DELHI: On the face of it, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana has accomplished a lot. More than 7 crore households have received subsidised cooking gas (LPG) connections under the scheme. Over 82% of those who got the connections have bought refills...
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About 85% of Ujjwala beneficiaries in four States still use earthen stoves -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Study recommends that the scheme should move beyond benefits for women alone to change household behaviour NEW DELHI: The hidden truth of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY), being touted in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) election campaigning as one of the big successes of the incumbent government, is that most rural households with LPG (liquiefied petroleum gas) connections still use chulhas with firewood or dung cakes, to the detriment...
More »Women from tribal villages 'lose' BPL status after getting Ujjwala LPG -Syed Khalique Ahmed
-The Indian Express 28.2 per cent surveyed households did not buy refills even once, 37.4 per cent families bought refill second time, says study. Ahmedabad: Shardaben Mansinh, a resident of Mekhar Morva village in Panchmahal district, was a BPL cardholder. However, after she was allotted a LPG connection under Prime Minister’s Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in June 2016, she was denied subsidised kerosene by the local PDS shop. On inquiry, she was...
More »'Ujjwala connections get three refills annually on an average' -Twesh Mishra
-The Hindu Business Line Oil companies gear up to meet LPG demand after Ujjwala expansion New Delhi: The annual average demand for LPG cylinder refills is now three under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) according to IndianOil Chairman, Sanjiv Singh. “The average number of LPG refills in every household across the country was close to seven plus before the Ujjwala scheme was launched. This has now tapered to seven and the...
More »In poll-bound Chhattisgarh, women stick to chulhas despite LPG scheme -Nidhi Sharma
-The Economic Times Vimla Nishad bends on her small chulha and tries to light a fire. Her two-room house fills up with smoke and her two-year-old son starts coughing. The firewood is damp as it has been raining the whole day so it is taking longer to light up. She looks around nervously as it is 8 pm and she has to get the dinner going. Sitting in one corner of...
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