(FE)
India’s oil marketing companies (OMCs) — Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum — are in the process of floating a not-for-profit organisation to administer the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s Ujjwala Plus scheme. The scheme is for prividing free liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections to those certified below-poverty line families which were left out in the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011, and will not receive benefit under the government’s Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY).
PMUY saw phenomenal success and achieved its first-year target of reaching 1.5 crore beneficiaries within eight months. PMUY was launched in May 2016 at Ballia in Uttar Pradesh to provide clean source of cooking fuel to five crore households in the next three years. “The modalities are on and the OMCs will create a not-for-profit company to receive donations. They have created an account which will require a formal approval from their respective boards,” said a person close to the development.
