The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the increase in the target for the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, meant to provide cooking gas connections to rural women, to eight crore from the earlier five crore.
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The Cabinet also approved an additional allocation for the scheme of Rs4,800 crore.
The meeting took a slew of decisions across sectors, including increasing the minimum support price for copra, extending the Discovered Small Fields Policy to include more oil and gas fields, approving several bilateral agreements signed by India, and giving ex post facto approval to the changes made in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Bill.
The deadline for achieving the target is 2020.
Ujjwala Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is an ambitious social welfare scheme of Government launched on 1st May 2016 from Ballia in Uttar Pradesh.
Under the PM Ujjwala Yojana, the government aims to provide LPG connections to BPL households in the country.
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).
Ujjwala Yojana is aimed at providing 5 Crore LPG connections in the name of women in BPL (Below Poverty Line) households across the country. The government has set a target of 5 Crore LPG connections to be distributed to the BPL households across the country under the scheme.
The scheme will be implemented by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. This is first time in the history that Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas is implementing such an enormous welfare scheme which will benefit Crores of women belonging to the poorest households.
This Scheme would be implemented over three years, namely, the FY 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19.
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