Food Department secretary Richa Sharma on Friday chaired a meeting of department officials and officers of various oil marketing companies at the Mantralaya here. The secretary also conducted district-wise review of the progress in achievement of the target of distributing 10 lakh lPG connections in the State in the current fiscal year 2016-17.
She issued directives to officials concerned to pace up the implementation of scheme and directed them to provide connections under the scheme to women belonging to poor families, who are eligible in accordance with the parameters of social, economic and caste based census 2011.
Sharma directed the officials of oil companies to appoint distributors of lPG connections in remote areas. In the meeting, bottling plant, cylinder supply, aadhaar number issuance and seeding of aadhaar numbers in bank accounts were also reviewed.
In the meeting, director, Food Department, NN Ekka informed that till date, 8,21,544 women in Chhattisgarh have been provided lPG connections under the scheme. This includes 4,25,398 connections distributed by India Oil Corporation,2,33,296 connections provided by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, 1,62,850 connections given by Bharat Petroleum Corporation. The scheme was launched on August 13, 2016. In the meeting, special secretary, Food Department, MK Soni, NIC technical director Somshekhar and senior officials of three oil companies were present.