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Centre will provide 1.5 crore gas connections to women members of Below Poverty Line
Posted on: 08/Apr/2016 11:45:00 AM
Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that he Centre will provide 1.5 crore gas connections to women members of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families during the current fiscal.
Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan while speaking to the reported last night said: We will provide 1.5 crore gas connections to women members of BPL families in fiscal 2016-17 and our target is to provide gas connections to five crore women in the next three years. It is a new initiative of our government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide cooking gas to women members of BPL families with state support. After Prime Minister requested people to give up gas subsidy, 96 lakh people have surrendered it and this amount is being used to give LPG connections to women in BPL families.
The government has set aside a sum of Rs 2,000 crore in Union Budget 2016 to meet the initial cost of providing these LPG connections.
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