PMUY set to be introduced in State
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 06 2017:
The
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala
Yojana (PMUY) which
provides LPG connection to
poor households will be
introduced soon in the State.
This was stated by Consumer
Affairs Food and
Public Distribution
(CAF&PD) Minister Karam
Shyam during a press meet
yesterday at his residence at
Lilong Chajing Mairenkhong,
Imphal West.
Minister Karam Shyam
said he met Union Minister
of State for Petroleum and
Natural Gas Dharmendra
Pradhan in New Delhi on
May 3.Dharmendra Pradhan
is also likely to inaugurate the
gas bottling plant at Malom
on May 14.
Karam Shyam said 3.5
lakhs active consumers and
2.62 lakhs BPL consumers
are being covered by distributers
in 80 locations.
Till now 4,552 consumers
have been covered under the
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala
Yojana.
More than 1.5 lakh consumers
can avail benefits
under the scheme which provides
free LPG connections
to women belonging to BPL
(below-poverty- line) households,
he added.
Karam Shyam also met
Union Minister of Consumer
Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution Ram Vilas
Paswan in New Delhi on
April 27 and urged the Union
Minister not to cut subsidy
on sugar.
Notably, the Central Government
had discontinued
sugar subsidy from March 1,
2017, however PDS sugar
subsidy for AAY (Antyodaya
Anna Yojana) families was
restored on May 3 this year.
Karam Shyam also handed
over a letter written by Chief
Minister N Biren highlighting
the serious effects of abolition
of subsidy on sugar to
the State Government and the
common man.
He appealed for regular
and uninterrupted provision
of subsidy on sugar.
Union Minister Ram Vilas
Paswan gave assurance that
he would put up the grievances
to the Union Cabinet
and advised that the Chief
Minister should also put up
the grievances with Prime
Minister Narendra Modi.