Free LPG cylinder: The Union cabinet has approved an extension till end September for availing free cooking gas cylinders under the marque Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY).

The earlier announced Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) package included providing women of 83 million below poverty line (BPL) families with free cooking gas cylinders for three months under the Ujjwala scheme. Given that the approved scheme was to end in June, the petroleum ministry proposed for time extension by three months for the Ujjwala beneficiaries to avail the free cylinders.

These documents are necessary to get LPG cylinder

to get the benefit of the Ujjwala scheme being run in collaboration with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, some conditions have been fixed. As such, the age of the woman applying should be more than 18 years. Apart from this, he should have BPL card, savings account in the bank to get subsidy, identity card (Aadhaar card or Voter ID card) and passport size photo, which will be useful while applying. There should not already be any LPG connection in the family of the woman.

PM Ujjwala Scheme Application Form 2021

Now many of you must be thinking that although Pradhan Mantri has announced about New Ujjwala scheme 2.0 how to get all the befits of it? Well, the procedure for PM Ujjwala Scheme to apply for Free Gas Cylinder is really simple. Individuals just need to download Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala 2.0 Scheme Application form 2021 from the official web portal. After that, they need to fill it and attach copies of the documents list given below. Soon after you submit the pmuy.gov.in application you will get an SMS alert about the submission. The information will be cross-checked. To every gas connection company in the country, you can avail of free gas connection under PMUY 2.0 apply online www.pmuy.gov.in.

Eligibility Criteria Under PMUY

  • The applicant must be a woman above the age of 18.
  • The applicant must have the BPL card and must be a rural resident.
  • The applicant must have a savings bank account in any of the nationalised banks to receive the subsidy amount.
  • The applicant’s household must not already own an LPG connection.

PM Narendra Modi started the Ujjwala scheme in the year 2016. Under this, free gas connections are to be provided to the women of the country, so that they can get rid of smoke. At the same time, Ujjwala Yojana 2.0 was started in Uttar Pradesh (UP) from 25 August. While in the first phase about 8 crore women of the country got freedom from smoke, in the second phase of the scheme, the target is to benefit about 20 lakh women of the state. At the same time, a target has been set to distribute 1 crore free gas connections across the country.