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The beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana scheme are not opting for enough refills of cooking gas cylinders according to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. This puts a serious question mark on the viability of the scheme, and in fact, there has been a decline in the annual average LPG cylinder refills by PMUY beneficiaries.
“Encouraging the sustained usage of LPG remains a big challenge as the annual average refill consumption of 1.93 crore PMUY consumers (who have completed more than one year as on March 31, 2018) was only 3.66 refills as worked out by audit. Similar analysis for 3.18 crore PMUY beneficiaries as on December 31, 2018, revealed that refill consumption declined to 3.21 refills per annum,” the CAG’s Performance Audit Report of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana said.
