The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) has received tremendous response in Chhattisgarh so far as a total of 13.83 lakh women were benefitted under the scheme in which free gas connection was provided to the Below Poverty level (BPl) women, government said on Sunday.
PMUY is a welfare programme of the government of India, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2016.
The stated objective of the program is to provide 50,000,000 lPG connections on free of cost to women from families below the poverty line.
The scheme is aimed at replacing the unclean cooking fuels mostly used in the rural India with the clean and more efficient lPG (liquefied Petroleum Gas).
According to information from officials of Food and Civil Supplies, the beneficiaries till date in Janjgir Champa are 1,07,184, in Raigarh 1,05,363, in Rajnandgaon 1,07,948, in Bilaspur 96,650, in Mahasamund 83,106 in Raipur 56,443, in Dhamtari 49,730, in Sarguja 62,318, in Jashpur 63,352, in Gariyabandh 52,944, in Balodabazar-Bhatapara 64,977, in North Bastar (Kanker) 54,963, in Balod 44,544, in Mungeli 42,129. Whereas, in Korba 54,052, in Kabirdham 38,679, in Bemetara 39,866, in Bastar 44,451, in Surajpur 36,377, in Koria 36,304, in Balrampur-Ramanujganj 40,245, in Kondagaon 32,727, in South Bastar (Dantewada) 10,601, in Narayanpur 4,728, in Bijapur 4,025 and in Sukma 3,804.