Question

Performance of pradhan mantri ujjawala yojana

Answer 1

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana(PMUY) is a success. The scheme, under which 50 million LPG connectionswere to be given to women belonging to families that fall below the poverty line (BPL), managed to cover over two crore households within 11 months of its launch in Ballia in Uttar Pradesh in May 2016. But asRoshan Kishore explains inMint, there are reasons to believe the scheme is not delivering on its promise of freeing poor households from more polluting and harmful methods of energy use.Government officials last month said that LPG connections to BPLfamilieshad exceeded its target of 40,440 for 2016-17, and in fact, 63,294 connections were distributed in Amethi in UP. According to data from the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy, 20 million out of the 32.2 million new LPG connectionsin 2016-17 were part of the PMUY scheme.PMUY was aimed to replace unclean cooking fuels with the clean and more efficient LPG, andwas even believed to have contributed to the BJP’s recent sweep in the recent UP assembly polls.“Even though the SP government had also launched many welfare schemes like the Samajwadi Pension Yojana, the Ujjwala Yojana resonated well with people as the central government was quick in distributing cylindersto the beneficiaries and the people had the product in front of them in no time,” an SP leader from Lucknow toldLiveminton the condition of anonymity.