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Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Quick Notes

Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana:
• Launched in May 2016.
• Aim: To provide LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) connections to poor households.
• Key features: A deposit-free LPG connection is given to the eligible household with 
financial assistance of Rs 1,600 per connection by the Centre.
• Target: The scheme gained traction with its ambit being expanded to include 80 
million poor families from the earlier target of 50 million families with an additional 
allocation of Rs 4,800 crore.
Objectives of the scheme are:
• Empowering women and protecting their health.
• Reducing the serious health hazards associated with cooking based on fossil fuel.
• Reducing the number of deaths in India due to unclean cooking fuel.
• Preventing young children from significant number of acute respiratory illnesses 
caused due to indoor air pollution by burning the fossil fuel.
Eligibility criteria:
• Applicant must a woman above the age of 18 and a citizen of India.
• Applicant should belong to a BPL (Below Poverty Line) household.
• No one in the applicant’s household should own an LPG connection.
• The household income of the family, per month, must not exceed a certain limit as 
defined by the government of the Union Territories and State Government.
Applicant must not be a recipient of other similar schemes provided by the 
governments.
Under Ujjwala 2.0:
• Migrant workers would no longer have to struggle to get address proof documents 
to get the gas connections.
• The workers would only be required to submit a self-declaration of their residential 
address to get the gas connection.
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