Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Interim Budget 2024-25: Food, fertiliser subsidy pegged lower in FY25

The government had rolled out PMUY in May 2022 to make clean cooking fuel, such as LPG, available to the rural and deprived households

Centre allocates Rs 1,650 cr to extend PMUY for 7.5 million LPG connections

Beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana will also receive the first refill and a stove free of cost

Study links Ujjwala limits to gender dynamics, not inflation

The study on social welfare schemes is part of a series of books that the National Book Trust, under the Union Ministry of Education, is in the process of publishing

Govt seeks approval for Rs 4.36 trillion additional spending in FY23

Fertiliser, food subsidies, payments to OMCs for LPG dominated supplementary demand

Govt eyes ending schemes, including PAHAL, with wasteful expenditures

The PAHAL scheme, launched in 2013, is aimed at reduce diversion and eliminate duplicate or bogus LPG connections

India's FY23 fertiliser subsidy may rise further to Rs 2.5 trillion

Finance Minister Sitharaman had said on May 21 that fertiliser subsidy would require an additional outlay of Rs 1.10 trillion over and above the budgeted amount, taking the outlay to Rs 2.15 trillion

Crude economics

India needs deeper fiscal reforms

Tax revenue boost or expenditure cuts can help meet fiscal deficit target

The impact of Saturday's excise duty cuts will be Rs 1 trillion for a year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said

Limited impact

Tax cuts will not lower inflation significantly

Govt gave 8 mm free cooking gas connections in 2021-22: Ministry

The oil ministry also said that framework for across counter sale of non-subsidised LPG connections and portability of domestic LPG connections among oil marketing companies has improved

PMUY beneficiaries may continue using around three cylinders a year

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas had introduced PMUY as a flagship scheme with an objective to make LPG available to the rural and deprived households

Ujjwala 2.0 target saturated as connection requests top 10 million

Oil Ministry will get approvals to go beyond Budgeted target

Next leg of Ujjwala to kick off in May; Centre to focus on affordability

Five years after its launch, the scheme seems to have run into a fresh problem: affordability

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High price of LPG cylinders forcing the poor to return to firewood

At the price of Rs 819, LPG refills beyond the reach of most PMUY beneficiaries.

Lockdown in a small place

But never have I been so thankful for my decision to quit my life in Mumbai and shift to Santiniketan as I have been in these times of the coronavirus

From loans to refills at doorsteps, Ujjwala scheme may get a facelift

This is among a slew of measures to be introduced by oil marketing companies to boost the number of refills under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY)

Schemes like Ujjwala, Jan Dhan prove Modi govt is not elitist: Sitharaman

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Distribution handicaps a hurdle for Centre's LPG Ujjwala scheme

After the success of PMUY, LPG coverage in India increased from 56% in 2014 to 94.3% by April 2019

Matching the talk to the attire

Ujjwala can be translated to mean bright