Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal distributed lPG connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) at Panipat. Present on the occasion was Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. “The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is an excellent scheme fulfilling the vision of Prime Minister to provide clean fuel to the BPl families and is a boon to women to experience cooking without smoke,” said Manohar lal.
Addressing the large gathering, Dharmendra Pradhan, explained the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana and said, “The scheme would impact the lives of women from BPl families in a major way by reducing the drudgery of cooking with polluting fuels and go a long way in reducing indoor pollution and other health related problems being faced by them.” The PMUY scheme is aimed at replacing the polluting cooking fuels mostly used in rural India with more clean and efficient lPG (liquefied Petroleum Gas) by providing five crore lPG connections to BPl households pan India in three years.
It also aims at empowering women and protecting their health and reducing the number of deaths in India due to use of polluting cooking fuels. Pradhan concluded by saying that the main mantra of PMUY, “Mahilaon Ko Mila Samman, Swacch Indhan-Behtar Jeevan.”