Under this initiative, the government will give the deposit money on behalf of the beneficiaries
Pradhan also said by the next year-end, over 2 million new gas connections will be provided in the state
Already, 33.6 million connections have been given under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
UP which earlier had about 16.7 mn LPG connections, witnessed a release of over 6 mn new LPG connections under Ujjwala
Pradhan handed over free LPG connection to the beneficiary of PMUY
Late last year, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas got a complaint from Satyendra Kumar, a resident of Uttar Pradesh. He claimed he had paid ~5 lakh to get a distributorship of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) through a website. It was then that the ministry started keeping an eye on the unofficial clones of the PMUY website, giving information and offering cylinders under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship scheme. According to officials, there exists at least half a dozen fake sites, masquerading as PMUY websites, which even come out with advertisements to collect money. The government has been forced to brand www.pmujjwalayojana.com as the "official" site and has approached the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY) to block the fake ones. "A website http://ujjwalargglvy.com was one of these, which started collecting money for the distributorship and used the emblems of the government's 'Give it up' ...
Connections would be provided to poor under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
According to experts, having an open fire in the kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour, Arun Jaitley said