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- Union government has decided to expand the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) till the financial year 2026.
- 7,500,000 new Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) connections will be allocated in three years.
- This expansion will increase the total number of PMUY beneficiaries to 103.5 million with a cost of 1650 crore.
- It will increase the total number of PMUY beneficiaries to 103.5 million.
- The government has recently reduced the price of cooking gas by Rs 200 across all markets.
- A Subsidy of Rs 200 per 14.2 kg cylinder was sent to 90 million PMUY beneficiaries till May 2022.
- This subsidy was later extended for another year in March, costing an additional Rs 7,680 crore.
- According to the data from the Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell LPG penetration has reached 99.9 per cent in 2022.
- There were 314 million households in India with LPG connections as of 1 April 2023.
- In FY23, 29.34 million metric tonnes of LPG were sold by Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs).
- Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016.
- The main objective of the scheme is to provide deposit-free LPG connections to women from poor households.
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