PMUY is a flagship welfare scheme that provides domestic Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to enhance access to clean energy for households.
About Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY)
- Launch Year: 2016.
- Ministry: Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG).
- Objective: To make clean cooking fuel such as LPG available to the rural and deprived households which were otherwise using traditional cooking fuels such as firewood, coal, cow-dung cakes, etc.
- Original target: The target under the scheme was to release 8 Crore LPG Connections to deprived households by 2020.
- Ujjwala 2.0: Additional allocation of 1.6 Crore LPG Connections by December 2022 under PMUY scheme with special facility to migrant households.
- Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants (woman only) must have attained 18 years of age.
- Adult women belonging SC, ST, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin), Most Backward Classes (MBC), Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), Tea and Ex- Tea Garden tribes, Forest Dwellers, People residing in Islands and River Islands, enlisted under SECC Households, etc.
- Achievements
- As of March 2025, there are 10.33 crore PMUY connections across India.
- Total number of LPG distributors increased from 13,896 in 2014 to 25,481 in 2024, marking an 83% growth.