Make cooking gas cheaper for poor, remove subsidy for rich: Study

By distributing 73 million connections (as on July 14, 2019), the Ujjwala scheme has met 91.25% of its target of 80 million connections to poor households by 2020

The subsidy on liquefied petroleum gas (cooking gas) cylinders for India's newly-connected 73 million poor households should be increased enough to limit the cost of a cylinder to 4% of a household’s monthly expenditure, according to a study.

The subsidy should only be provided to poor households, and the wealthy should be removed from the beneficiaries list, according to the June 15, 2019, policy brief titled “Ujjwala 2.0” by Collaborative Clean Air Policy Centre (CCAPC), a multi-organisational initiative.

With these two changes the central government’s Ujjwala scheme can help poor