Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), the schemes aimed to replace the unclean cooking fuels mostly used in the rural India with clean and more efficient lPG, has gathered good response at Bokaro district.
The administration here has organised a day long camp in all 256 panchayats on Sunday to dispose the applications came in good numbers.
According to reports all together 26,169 application forms along with the attached documents have been submitted in all 256 panchayats camp organised at different panchayat camps on Sunday. The lPG field officials will check the details of the applicant and match them against socio-economic and caste census data to confirm eligibility.
The lPG gas cylinder with stove will be provided as soon as the applicant is found eligible ,official sources said.
Meanwhile, Bokaro DC Rai Mahimapat Ray also called a meeting with officials concerned on Sunday.
In the meeting, the DC asked panchayat sewaks and Rojgar sewaks about those panchayats where less then 100 applications have come.
Maximum applications 3,728 have come in Chandankiyari block, 3,109,in Gomia block and 2,998 application have been submitted in Nawadih block respectively in a day long camp.
“The poor in district, especially those in rural areas, have limited access to lPG, which is the house hold cooking gas. The spread of cooking gas
has mainly taken place in the semi-urban and urban areas covering mostly the affluent and middle–class families. Additionally, serious health hazards are associated with alternate fuels such as wood, dried cow dung, kerosene and low quality coal which the poor use for cooking,” DC further added.