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GIVE IT UP—UJJAWALA

One crore people gave up gas subsidies,
paving the way for a smoke-free kitchen...

According to the WHO, about 5 lakh people
die every year in India due to kitchen fumes.
LPG was considered the identity of the affluent
class. Then the foundation of a smoke-free
kitchen in the form of Ujjwala was laid with
'PAHAL', 'GIVE IT UP'...

2014 Fake connections were identified under
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the "PAHAL" scheme. PM Modi urged the
affluent to forego the LPG subsidy through
"Give It Up" in March 2015, so that the
remaining funds could be used to deliver LPG
to the needy.
More than 1 crore people voluntarily gave up
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the subsidy. Then, on May 1, 2016, PM Modi
started the Ujjwala scheme. Under this, free
LPG connections are given to the poor.

Clean fuel for all homes Munshi Premchand

Figures: Crores of LPG Consumers 30.53 wrote the story Idgah
in 1933. Its main

The LPG connection was character, Hamid, a
started in 1965. 2000
connections were given in small boy, does not eat
the same year. 11.49 sweets at the fair and
5.78 instead purchases tongs
0 1.62 for his grandmother so
0.31
that her hands do not
1947 1965 1980 1990 2001 2010 2022 burn while cooking. If
Hamid can do it, why

n 9.34 crore new LPG connections were given under the can't the country's Prime
Ujjwala scheme. Nearly 100% LPG coverage has been Minister?
reached. There are about 31 crore gas connections in
the country, compared to only 14 crore in 2014. —Narendra Modi,
n Now the country is working on the target of providing Prime Minister
piped gas to more than 75% of the households.

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