Our Correspondent
Imphal, June 7 (EMN): Two days after the formal launching of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, Below Poverty Line(BPL) families in Thoubal and Imphal east district have started to get Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) connections on Wednesday.
According to official reports, M/s Athokpam Indane service begins to provide house to house LPG connections to beneficiaries under the central scheme in Thoubal District. Subscription vouchers/customer’s document was also given to the beneficiaries. On Tuesday M/s RBD Indane Service, Lamlai completed installations of 18 connection to 18 BPL beneficiaries. RBD Indane and Sawombung Indane at Imphal East and M/s Lambodara Indane, Mantripukhri at Heingang also began immediate LPG installations providing LPG connections to BPL families. Beneficiaries in Lamlai Sekta who never had LPG connections were given Ujjwala domestic LPG connections by RBD Indane,the report said.
The BPL beneficiaries were provided affordable stoves/burner and given demonstrations on how to use the stove and the regulator. Safety tips were also explained and emergency number 1906 in case of leakage was written on the walls of the kitchen.
Under the scheme, the Central Government is allocating financial assistance of Rs 1,600 which includes security deposit fee of a 14.2 kg LPG cylinder, pressure regulator, suraksha LPG hose, DGCC booklet and installation cost for the distributor.
A total of 2,43,939 beneficiaries are eligible for the scheme as per Socio-Economic Caste census (2011 census).
The total beneficiaries enrolled as on June 1, 2017 is 5,104. Ujjwala domestic LPG connections are given to women from BPL families in their own names based on their Aadhar cards and bank accounts. The objective of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is to provide deposit free 5 crore cooking gas (LPG) connections to women from below-poverty-line (BPL) households over 3 years from 2016-17 to 2018-2019.
