Ujjwala 2.0 target saturated as connection requests top 10 million

Oil Ministry will get approvals to go beyond Budgeted target

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has got more than 10 million valid applications under the second leg of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY 2.0). With this, the target for disbursing 10 million new connections in the Budget 2021 has been saturated.

“We will seek post-facto approvals for disbursing connections in excess of the target spelled out in the Budget 2021. No connections will be denied to eligible beneficiaries of PMUY 2.0,” an oil ministry official told Business Standard.

In her Budget 2021 speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said, “Ujjwala Scheme which has benefited 80 million households