Lok Sabha Question No. 1827 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-08-01
Subject: PMUY 2.0
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: Shri Ganesh Singh, Shri Pradeep Purohit, Shri Janardan Mishra, Shri Abhishek Banerjee, Shri Vijay Baghel

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1827 TO BE ANSWERED ON 1 st  August, 2024

## PMUY 2.0

## पेĚोͧलयम एवं Ĥाक ृ Ǔतक गैस मंğी

Will the Minister of PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana particularly in Bargarh and Jharsuguda of Odisha till date, State/UT-wise;
- (b) the budgetary allocation made under the said scheme since the inception thereof;
- (c)  the  status  of  implementation of the Ujjwala Yojana 2.0, State/UT-wise particularly in Odisha and Chhattisgarh;
- (d) the number of beneficiaries who have got LPG connections under Ujjwala 2.0
- (e)  the  details  of  number  and  percentage of  beneficiaries  who  have  taken  more  than  six  refills  a year, year- wise.
- (f)  the  number of households which still rely upon natural resources like wood, charcoal etc. for cooking, if so, the details thereof; and
- (g)  the  timeline  to  ensure  every  household  in  the  country  has  access  to  year-round  LPG  at affordable rates ?

## ANSWER

## पेĚोͧलयम एवं Ĥाक ृ Ǔतक गैस मंğालय मɅ राÏयमंğी ( Įी सुरेश गोपी

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MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS (SHRI SURESH GOPI)

(a) : Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana(PMUY) was launched on 01.05.2016 to release deposit free LPG connection in the name of adult woman member of poor households across the country. As on  01.07.2024,  there  are  10.33  crore  Pradhan  Mantri  Ujjwala  Yojana  (PMUY)  beneficiaries across  the  country.  State/UT-wise  details  of  LPG  connections  released  under  PMUY  are  at Annexure-A .

Number of PMUY connections released in the districts Bargarh  and Jharsugada of Odisha are given below;

| District   | Number of PMUY Connections   |
|------------|------------------------------|
| Bargarh    | 2.10 lakh                    |
| Jharsuguda | 1.02 lakh                    |

1827.   Shri Pradeep Purohit:

Shri Ganesh Singh:

Shri Abhishek Banerjee:

Shri Janardan Mishra:

Shri Vijay Baghel:

(b):  Details of subsidy given by Government under PMUY since 2016-17 are given below:

(Rs. in Crore)

| Particulars                                    |   2016 -17 |   2017- 18 |   2018- 19 |   2019- 20 |   2020- 21 |   2021- 22 |   2022- 23 |   2023- 24 (P) |
|------------------------------------------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|----------------|
| Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) subsidy * |       2999 |       2559 |       5670 |       1446 |         76 |       1569 |       6110 |          10217 |

Source: Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC)

*includes targetted subsidy to PMUY beneficiaries.

In addition to above, during Covid-19 pandemic, as a pro-poor initiative, Government announced a  scheme  for  providing  upto  3  (three)  free  of  cost  LPG  refills  to  Ujjwala  beneficiaries  w.e.f. 01.04.2020 under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP). OMCs transferred Rs. 9670.41  crore  to  bank  accounts  of  PMUY  beneficiaries  for  buying  LPG  refills  and  PMUY beneficiaries availed 14.17 crore refills under the Scheme.

(c) & (d): To cover the remaining poor households, PMUY phase-2 (Ujjwala 2.0) was launched in  August  2021  with  a  target  to  release  1  crore  additional  PMUY  connections,  which  was achieved in January 2022. Subsequently, the Government decided to release 60 lakh more LPG connections  under  Ujjwala  2.0  and  as  on  01.01.2023,  the  target  of  1.60  crore  Ujjwala  2.0 connections has  already  been achieved. Further  government approved  release of additional 75 lakh connections under PMUY Scheme for the period FY 2023-24 to 2025-26 which has already been achieved on 08.07.2024.

Under PAHAL Scheme, the domestic LPG cylinders are sold at non-subsidised price and the applicable subsidy to the consumers is transferred directly into their bank accounts. Apart from the direct subsidy to consumers, the OMCs have also been compensated Rs 22,000 crore in FY 2022-23 by Government of India to cover the under-recoveries suffered by them in not passing on the high international LPG prices to the domestic LPG consumers.

Government reduced the retail selling price of domestic LPG for all consumers by Rs. 200 per 14.2 Kg LPG cylinder with effect from 30th August, 2023. Government further reduced the RSP of domestic LPG by Rs. 100 per 14.2 Kg cylinder w.e.f. 9th March, 2024. The current RSP of domestic LPG at Delhi is Rs. 803 per 14.2 Kg cylinder.

W.e.f. 21st May, 2022, Government has been providing a targeted subsidy of Rs. 200 per 14.2 Kg LPG cylinder for Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) beneficiaries for upto 12 refills a year. Moreover, w.e.f.  5th October, 2023, Government increased the targeted subsidy to Rs. 300 per 14.2 Kg LPG cylinder for all Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) beneficiaries. With a targeted  subsidy  of  Rs.  300  per  cylinder  (and  proportionately  prorated  for  5  Kg  cylinder), effective cost for PMUY consumers is Rs. 503 per 14.2 Kg cylinder (at Delhi) currently.

The current  RSP  of  domestic  LPG  at  Delhi  is  Rs.  803  per  14.2  Kg  cylinder.  With  a  targeted subsidy of Rs. 300 per cylinder (and proportionately prorated for 5 Kg cylinder), effective cost for PMUY consumers is Rs. 503 per 14.2 Kg cylinder (at Delhi) currently.

As on 01.07.2024, total 8.18 lakh and 8.11 lakh connections have been released in Odisha and Chhattisgarh respectively in Ujjwala 2.0.  State/UT-wise details are given as Annexure - B.

P

- Provisional

- (e)  :  The  number  of  PMUY  Beneficiaries  who  have  taken  more  than  6  refills  (including installation refill) for last five years is given below:
- (f) & (g): Adoption and consumption of domestic LPG by households depends on several factors like  food  habits,  household  size,  cooking  habits,  price,  availability  of  alternate  fuels  and behavioral changes etc. More than 105 crore refills have been taken by PMUY beneficiaries in the last 3 years alone. Per capita consumption of PMUY beneficiaries (in terms of no. of 14.2 kg LPG cylinders taken per year) has increased from 3.01 (FY 2019-20) to 3.95 (FY 2023-24).

| Financial Year   |   Number of Beneficiaries (in lakh) taken more than 6 refills |   %beneficiaries taken more than 6 refills out of total PMUY Beneficiaries |
|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 2019-20          |                                                         86.71 |                                                                       10.8 |
| 2020-21          |                                                        155.06 |                                                                       19.4 |
| 2021-22          |                                                        126    |                                                                       14   |
| 2022-23          |                                                        158.42 |                                                                       16.5 |
| 2023-24          |                                                        203.15 |                                                                       19.7 |

Source: IOCL on industry basis

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State/UT-wise number of connections released under PMUY scheme

| State/UT          | TotalPMUY Customers as on 01.07.2024   |
|-------------------|----------------------------------------|
| Andaman &Nicobar  | 13,824                                 |
| Andhra Pradesh    | 9,69,282                               |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 53,794                                 |
| Assam             | 50,97,006                              |
| Bihar             | 1,16,27,899                            |
| Chandigarh        | 2,027                                  |
| Chhattisgarh      | 37,88,873                              |
| D&NHand D&D       | 17,861                                 |
| Delhi             | 2,57,774                               |
| Goa               | 1,957                                  |
| Gujarat           | 43,07,900                              |
| Haryana           | 11,14,647                              |
| Himachal Pradesh  | 1,50,817                               |
| Jammu &Kashmir    | 12,69,989                              |
| Jharkhand         | 38,95,544                              |
| Karnataka         | 41,47,825                              |
| Kerala            | 3,87,869                               |
| Ladakh            | 11,085                                 |
| Lakshadweep       | 361                                    |
| Madhya Pradesh    | 88,36,653                              |
| Maharashtra       | 52,17,632                              |
| Manipur           | 2,24,921                               |
| Meghalaya         | 3,16,589                               |
| Mizoram           | 35,989                                 |
| Nagaland          | 1,22,123                               |
| Odisha            | 55,49,341                              |
| Pondicherry       | 19,338                                 |
| Punjab            | 13,59,364                              |
| Rajasthan         | 73,80,647                              |
| Sikkim            | 19,904                                 |
| Tamil Nadu        | 41,00,279                              |
| Telangana         | 11,85,753                              |
| Tripura           | 3,15,418                               |
| Uttar Pradesh     | 1,85,94,511                            |
| Uttarakhand       | 5,30,136                               |
| West Bengal       | 1,23,75,656                            |
| Total             | 10,33,00,588                           |

Source: IOCL on industry basis

| State/UT-wise Number of connections released under Ujjwala 2.0 (as on 01.07.2024)   | State/UT-wise Number of connections released under Ujjwala 2.0 (as on 01.07.2024)   |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| State                                                                               | connections released                                                                |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands                                                         | 1,237                                                                               |
| Andhra pradesh                                                                      | 5,77,727                                                                            |
| Arunachal Pradesh                                                                   | 9,441                                                                               |
| Assam                                                                               | 16,30,863                                                                           |
| Bihar                                                                               | 31,50,707                                                                           |
| Chandigarh                                                                          | 1,938                                                                               |
| Chhattisgarh                                                                        | 8,11,347                                                                            |
| D &NHand Daman &Diu                                                                 | 2,895                                                                               |
| Delhi                                                                               | 1,81,835                                                                            |
| Goa                                                                                 | 876                                                                                 |
| Gujarat                                                                             | 14,11,938                                                                           |
| Haryana                                                                             | 3,90,331                                                                            |
| Himachal Pradesh                                                                    | 14,676                                                                              |
| UT of Jammu and Kashmir                                                             | 42,080                                                                              |
| Jharkhand                                                                           | 6,41,623                                                                            |
| Karnataka                                                                           | 10,11,859                                                                           |
| Kerala                                                                              | 1,31,877                                                                            |
| UT of Ladakh                                                                        | 23                                                                                  |
| Lakshadweep                                                                         | 69                                                                                  |
| Madhya Pradesh                                                                      | 16,96,831                                                                           |
| Maharashtra                                                                         | 8,05,364                                                                            |
| Manipur                                                                             | 68,556                                                                              |
| Meghalaya                                                                           | 1,66,017                                                                            |
| Mizoram                                                                             | 7,867                                                                               |
| Nagaland                                                                            | 66,991                                                                              |
| Odisha                                                                              | 8,18,113                                                                            |
| Puducherry                                                                          | 5,744                                                                               |
| Punjab                                                                              | 1,41,148                                                                            |
| Rajasthan                                                                           | 10,29,310                                                                           |
| Sikkim                                                                              | 11,145                                                                              |
| Tamil Nadu                                                                          | 8,65,960                                                                            |
| Telangana                                                                           | 1,14,957                                                                            |
| Tripura                                                                             | 49,341                                                                              |
| Uttar Pradesh                                                                       | 38,88,544                                                                           |
| Uttarakhand                                                                         | 1,27,343                                                                            |
| West Bengal                                                                         | 35,68,294                                                                           |
| TOTAL                                                                               | 2,34,44,867                                                                         |

Source: IOCL on industry basis