Govt approves ₹8,000 cr rural LPG scheme
The government on Thursday approved the Pradhan Mantri Ujwala Yojana, a scheme for providing LPG connections free of cost to women members of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. It will have an outlay of ₹8,000 crore for next three years, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. The scheme will benefit 1.5 crore households in 2016-17, FM Arun Jaitley had earlier said. 