Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUJ) would be partly funded by the District Mineral Foundation (DMF) money in Chhattisgarh.
The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is one of the flagship schemes of the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. It first was launched in Uttar Pradesh on May 1, 2016. Under the scheme, the government aims at providing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections to below poverty line (BPL) households across the country. The scheme is aimed at enabling rural India to switch to clean energy.
The state government had set a target to provide LPG connection