PAHAL - Direct Benefits Transfer for LPG (DBTL) Consumers Scheme
Launch Date: 1.1.2015
Objective: To send the subsidy money of LPG cylinders directly into the bank accounts of the consumers and increase efficiency & transparency in the whole system.
Achievements:
· The success of PAHAL is evident from the fact it made it to the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest cash benefit transfer scheme.
· Launched in 54 districts on 15.11.2014 and expanded to 622 more districts from 1 January 2015.
· About 17.22 crore people benefitted till date
· World’s largest cash transfer program
· Rs. Rs.47,961 crore transferred so far as subsidy directly into accounts
· Subsidy savings of Rs. 22,515 crore from 2014-17
· This Scheme has entered the Guinness Book of World Record for
being the largest direct benefit transfer scheme.
Give Up Subsidy
Launch Date: 27.3.2016
Objective: An appeal to the economically well-off people to voluntarily surrender subsidy and the promise to give back LPG connections to poor households.
Achievements:
- ‘Give Back’- 65 lakh connections given back to BPL families
URJA GANGA:
· Will cater to energy requirements of five states, covering 40 districts and 2,600 villages
· Will revive three large fertilizer plants, enable industrialization of over 20 cities and development of city gas network in 7 cities, thereby generating large numbers of jobs.
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
Launch Date: 1.5.2016
Objective: To provide deposit free 5 crore cooking gas (LPG) connections to women from below-poverty-line (BPL) households over 3 years from 2016-17 to 2018-2019
Achievements:
- 2.16 crore LPG connection provided to BPL Households (As on 1st May)
- Scheme spread all over the country, now in 694 districts
- Target is to provide five core LPG connections in three years during 2016-19).
- Rs.8000 crores earmarked
- 24X7 Helpline for LPG Consumers: Dial 1906
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