Sham Lal distributes 300 LPG connections under PMUY

5 Dariya News

Jammu 06-Nov-2016

Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control Sham Lal Chaudhary today distributed over 300 LPG  connections among  the female beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in a function held here today.The Minister while addressing the gathering said that PMUY is a major initiative  to empower  woman and give them a healthy environment .He said that use of LPG in households will help protect the health of the women and reduce the serious health hazards associated with cooking based on fossil fuel, reduce the number of deaths in India due to unclean cooking fuel and prevent young children from significant number of acute respiratory illnesses caused due to indoor air pollution by burning the fossil fuel.The Minister said that with Prime Minister’s initiative over 1 crore people voluntarily gave up their LPG subsidy. 

The savings generated from this initiative are being  utilized in providing subsidized LPG connections to the poor.Sham Lal also assured the people that all left out, remaining households under the PMUY will soon be covered in the subsequent camps to be held at panchayat level thereby ensuring cent percent coverage.He said that government is committed to ensure LPG connection reaches every single household . Sham Lal  also listed out various social elevation schemes launched by centre & state governments  and urged the people to avail the benefits of these schemes. He stressed upon people to help disseminate  information about these welfare programmes among others   so that no household remains devoid of the benefits from these welfare  schemes.