Budget 2018 may broaden Ujjwala to light up rural housing scheme too

Officials said the PMUY and the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana might be linked, which would add 10 mn beneficiaries of the rural housing scheme automatically

The National Democratic Alliance government’s flagship cooking gas scheme is likely to be linked to the rural housing scheme in order to provide wider coverage. An announcement on widening of the programme is likely to be made in Thursday’s Budget. 

Officials said the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) and the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) might be linked, which would add 10 million beneficiaries of the rural housing scheme automatically. In addition to this, the mandate of the PMUY is set to be expanded from 50 million to 80 million with an additional budgetary support of Rs 48 billion. The