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Rural women are working, informally. But are they doing well?
March 04, 2025 12:06 pm
We await more granular, recent data on women’s time use to better understand how much of the rise in women’s work participation is attributable to methodological changes in the PLFS survey and how much of it is a real, meaningful change in Indian women’s time allocation
How LPG subsidy can be redesigned to privilege low-income households
February 24, 2024 11:07 am
Considering the health and time-saving benefits, particularly for the women and children in low-income families, the benefits of an upfront refill subsidy are likely to be huge
Cabinet approves Rs 1,650 crore to add 75 lakh new Ujjwala scheme connections over 3 years
September 14, 2023 1:07 am
The price cut and expansion of PMUY, which came ahead of Assembly elections in five states later this year and the Lok Sabha elections next year, was described by the government as its gift to the people on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan and Onam.
Govt extends Ujjwala subsidy for another yr
March 25, 2023 5:31 am
The Rs 200 subsidy will be provided on a maximum of 12 refills and the total estimated expenditure on this count will be Rs 7,680 crore for 2023-24, the government said in a release after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, which approved the proposal.
'Ujjwala Effect': Study estimates over 1.5 lakh lives saved in a year, 13% reduction in air pollution deaths
March 19, 2022 10:09 pm
The researchers maintain that the benefits of Ujjwala measured by them were conservative estimates and the actual benefits could be even higher.
3,100 women to receive gas kits on PM’s birthday
September 16, 2021 3:08 am
A total of 400 beneficiaries will receive gas kits under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana 2.0 programme to be held at Bodakdev, Behrampura, Nikol and Vatva areas of the city, an official release stated here on Wednesday.
PM Narendra Modi: 10 crore LPG connections given in four years against 13 crore since independence
May 28, 2018 1:20 pm
Under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, the government provides a subsidy of Rs 1,600 to state-owned fuel retailers for every free LPG gas connection that they install in poor rural households without one.
PM Modi's signature Ujjwala Yojana praised in WHO report: All you need to know
May 02, 2018 11:31 am
The scheme aims to protect women and children from the smoke emitted from households using firewood for cooking purposes.
Two Koraput tribal villages to be declared 'smokeless'
April 17, 2018 3:49 pm
The villages switched to LPG after the officials held several meetings with the residents and showed them how to use LPG stove.
PM’s Ujjwala Yojana: Residents allege discrepancy in LPG allotment, Collector orders probe
July 07, 2017 10:01 pm
“The benefit of the gas and (LPG) cylinder allotment under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is not being given to real beneficiaries of Waghodiya taluka, though computerised record of the deputy mamlatdar supply office shows that they have been allotted,” stated a memorandum.
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