TNT: New Delhi: Wednesday, July 05, 2017.
In six out of
eight northeastern states, the Modi government failed to provide even a single
LPG connection under its flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY).
The Yojana is
an initiative on whose success the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rode to power
in Uttar Pradesh, having provided over 4.3 million connections in the state to
BPL families.
The
information was received from Indian Oil Corporation BSE -0.34 % Limited
(IOCLBSE -0.34 %) through an RTI application by IANS in May.
According to
the RTI reply, till May 8, 2017, not a single family benefitted from the
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in states like Arunchal Pradesh,
Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.
Just the two
BJP-ruled states in northeast India Assam and Manipur saw five and 27 LPG
connections, respectively.
In Assam,
Baksa district received one connection, Darrang got one, Dhemaji district one
and Dibrugarh got two.
In Manipur,
Kakching district received highest number of connections with 15, followed by
eight in Thoubal, two in Imphal West and one each in Jiribam and Churachandpur.
The RTI reply
also says that till May 8, 2017, a total of 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh have
released 4,337,706 connections under the PMUY.
The scheme
was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 1, 2016, in Ballia, Uttar
Pradesh in the run up to the assembly elections in the state, which was held
from February 11 to March 8 this year in seven phases.
The BJP swept
through the assembly elections in Uttar Pardesh, bagging 325 seats out of 403
seats and dislodging the Samajwadi Party government, which along with the
Congress could manage only 54 seats.
It is
believed that women in UP were pleased with the central government’s initiative
and voted for the BJP.
The RTI reply
also said that till May 8, 2017, a total of 21.933 million connections had been
released in the whole country under PMUY.
However, to a
question as to how much the government had spent under the scheme in Uttar
Pradesh and in the whole country, the reply came that the information was not
available with IOCL.
Meanwhile, on
the website of PMUY under the ministry of petroleum and natural gas, it is
mentioned that till July 1, 704 districts had been covered and 24.4 million BPL
LPG connections had been released.
The BJP came
to power also in Assam last year (2016) and Manipur early this year, uprooting
the Congress governments.
(Source:
Agencies)
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