Lucknow: Head of the Yogi Adityanath Minister said on Tuesday that the effective implementation of the ambitious ujawala scheme has caused doubling the number of LPG connections in the last seven years BJP rules in the middle.
He said that the state only had 1.47 Crore LPG connections until 2014, which had grown to 3.25 crores in 2021.
Speaking at the launch of the second Ujwala scheme in Mahaba, examining a free gas connection to a low-income family, Yogi said it was increasing coverage LPG causes lower kerosene consumption that helps state government save RS 15 Crore as income by 2020-21.
This savings is expected to touch the RS 22 Crore sign in the current fiscal, he said.
“People usually struggle to get gas connections before 2014.
They are allowed to bear pollution that affect their health,” he said, praising the center to meet the target of providing 8 Crore LPG Connection under the seven-month scheme.
Before the September 2019 schedule deadline.
This includes 1.5 crore receivers too.
Yogi said that the beneficiaries of the scheme of Ujajawala provided free LPG cylinders for six months free during the Corona pandemic, where the state government bears the cost of more than Rs 1,827 Crore.
“This is the main step and a kind of gift from PM Narendra Modi-LED government in the center of the woman’s dignity,” he said.
CM said that in addition to Ujajawala – where 1.5 connections were provided since the launch of the scheme in 2016 – the state government took a number of steps including the construction of a 2.61 crore toilet under the mission of Swachh Bharat to maintain the dignity of women.
He also mentions mass marriage poor girls, the scheme of Kanya Sumangala for girls’ education, and retirement for poor women.
CM also announced that the construction of the Bundelkhand 296-km toll road was 70% complete and the project would be fully built in November this year.
The stone foundation from this project was placed by Modi PM in Chitrakoot on February 2020.
Likewise, he said, the process of setting the defense corridor in Chitrakoot and Jhansi had been traced quickly.
In Jhansi and Chitrakoot, said Yogi, a land bank of 3,000 hectares and 150 hectares, respectively, has been made for investment purposes.
Yogi also announced that the prestigious ‘Har Ghar Nal’ scheme imagined drinking water supply to domestic households in the Bundelkhand area below Jal Jeevan Mission will be completed in December this year.
Likewise, the development of the airport in Chitrakoot and Lalitpur is being taken on a war footing.