Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) connections distributed to women under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) are gathering dust. Beneficiaries have not been able to fill cylinders due to high prices of LPG. The Centre has itself admitted this.
Rameshwar Teli, minister of state for petroleum and natural gas told the Rajya Sabha August 1, 2022 that 9.2 million customers did not take any refill in 2021-22.
He added that 10.8 million customers took only one refill (Refills being given with connections). Thus, 20 million of the 93.4 million beneficiaries of PMUY took a maximum of one refill.
He told the Rajya Sabha that 16.5 million beneficiaries took 0-1 refills in 2017-18, 41.4 million in 2018-19, 32.4 million in 2019-20 and 7.7 million in 2020-21. The number of beneficiaries who did not take any refill remained the highest in 2019-20.
This year, 14.1 million beneficiaries did not take any refill. The number of beneficiaries who took only one refill was the maximum (29 million) in 2018-19.
— source downtoearth.org.in | Bhagirath | 03 Aug 2022