Ujjwala Yojana : PMUY (Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana)
In India, many have limited access to clean cooking fuel (LPG). And there are some serious health hazards linked with cooking based on fossil fuels. World Health Organization estimates, about 5 lakh deaths in India alone are due to unclean cooking fuels.
Thus to overcome this crisis, the Prime Minister of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana scheme on 1st May 2016 to help BPL families across the country access LPG connections. The scheme is executed by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Under the expanded scheme, the major eligibility criteria are that the candidate must be an adult woman belonging to a BPL family, not having an LPG connection in the household.
This scheme seeks to empower women and protect their health. To sum up, PMUY is an extremely important scheme to assist India’s unemployed or self-employed citizens. To support the backward class, PMUY was started. Ujjwala Yojana will not only reduce pollution but also improve the quality of life of the poor.
