Tag: Ujjwala Yojana
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Energy Access in India: Is the Disadvantaged Strata Excluded?
Around 940 billion people in the world do not have access to electricity and more than 3 billion people suffer because of lack of access to clean cooking fuels. Since independence, India has made substantial progress, however, it has a huge population, deprived of access to energy, chiefly amongst the vulnerable sections of its population.…
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Access to Clean Cooking Fuel in India: Aspiring for Gas Pipeline while struggling for LPG
By Anushka Gutte & Mrigakshi Tandon, Research Associates, Policy In May 2016, the government launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana that aimed at providing 5 crore Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) connections in the name of women of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) household. Research suggests that only 18 percent of rural households in India have…