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Most of the population of India resides in rural areas that the use of solid biomass for cooking causes high emission of pollutant evoking serious negative impact on human health not only one a single person whosoever involved in the cooking activity but the entire household people. It has been estimated by world health organization about 1 millions deaths occurs in India due to the use of solids cooking fuels. As it has been said by our father of nation, Mahatma Gandhi that future of our nation resides in its villages, thus development of India is akin to the development of its villages. To oversee it the Pradhanmantri Ujjawala Yojana (PMUY) was launched in 2016 to distribute 5 crore LPG connection for below poverty line (BPL) holders at free of cost by March 2019 so that universal coverage of cooking gas in the country. It has been observed that most of the people in India resides in village under BPL line thus these poor households can’t how afforded the high cost of purchasing an LPG connection and would depend on hazardous biomass fuel for cooking. After overseeing such a problem government of India has taken an initiative to overcome such barriers by launching a scheme in the form of PradhanMantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY).
The present study provides a comprehensive review of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana based an secondary data to gain a deeper understanding of the scheme's contributors on to the development of different sectors of society, such as women, the poor (BPL holders), various backward classes and others. It is observed that PMUJ plays a vital role in empowering womens bygivingconnections to them and paying concern towards health also.
Keywords:
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), LPG connection, government
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"PRADHAN MANTRI UJJWALA YOJANA : AN INITIATIVE OF GOVERNMENT TOWARDS BETTER LIFE FOR ALL", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no.819 - 821, December-2022, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2212123.pdf
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