(Nagaland Post)
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu along with Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and state’s Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Kamlung Mossang on Sunday launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) for Arunachal Pradesh in a function at State Banquet Hall. Expressing gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for launching the people-oriented scheme, Khandu said the scheme would benefit Arunachal Pradesh immensely as more than half of the population, especially in the rural areas, still use firewood for cooking purposes and hence indirectly impacts the state’s rich forest cover.
On June 2nd Union MoS (Independent Charge) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, in a meeting with Khandu and Rijiju at New Delhi, had assured that each and every household in Arunachal Pradesh would be connected by LPG by 2019. He had requested the Chief Minister and MoS Home to launch the scheme in the state immediately and implement it at all district and block levels on mission mode.Under PMUY women belonging to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families would be provided clean cooking fuel. The scheme aims to provide LPG connections to 5 crore BPL households by 2019 across the country and offers assistance of Rs 1600 for one connection.
