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LPG scheme to cover all poor people
Why is it in news?
- The Union Cabinet approved the expansion of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana.
- It aims to provide deposit-free LPG connections to all poor households.
- The scheme targeted the poor and underprivileged so listed in the Socio-Economic and Caste Census, 2011.
What are changes proposed?
- Following the Cabinet decision poor people will be able to opt for the scheme even if they so far were not eligible, after furnishing the required identification documents and an affidavit saying that they do not have an existing LPG connection.
- The mandate of the scheme was to provide LPG connections to eight crore households o f that, scheme would have achieved six crore at the end of 2018.
- So the funds to provide connections to the remaining two crore as well.
- According to LPG coverage stood at 89.5% as of December 1, 2018.
- As on December 12, more than 1.03 crore LPG consumers had voluntarily surrendered their subsidy under the ‘Give It Up’ campaign.
Source
The Hindu