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LPG Gas Cylinder Ujjwala scheme: Crores of people will get subsidies on LPG cylinders from the current financial year i.e. April 2024 to March 2025. This subsidy will be Rs 300 per cylinder and its benefit will be available only on 12 cylinders

LPG Gas Cylinder Ujjwala scheme: From the current financial year i.e. April 2024 to March 2025, crores of people will get subsidy on LPG cylinders. This subsidy will be Rs 300 per cylinder and its benefit will be available only on 12 cylinders. Common people will have to join the Ujjwala scheme to join the government scheme. Let us tell you that more than 9 crore people are associated with the Ujjwala scheme.

Ujjwala Yojana

Last March, the central government announced to increase in the subsidy given to poor women under the Ujjwala scheme by Rs 300 per cylinder. This subsidy was earlier till March 2024, which has now been extended till March 31, 2025. The subsidy is paid directly into the bank account of the beneficiaries. The central government used to give a subsidy of Rs 200 per cylinder to the beneficiaries of Ujjwala Yojana in May 2022, which was increased to Rs 300 in October 2023. This subsidy is available on 12 LPG cylinders annually. 10 crore families in the country are getting its benefit.

Ujjwala Yojana was launched in 2016

The government launched the scheme to provide LPG, a clean cooking fuel, to rural and deprived poor families by providing LPG connections to adult women without any deposit amount. The government launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (LPG) in May 2016. Gas connections were provided free of cost to the beneficiaries but they had to first buy LPG gas cylinders at market price, the government later gave a subsidy of Rs 300.

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