Lok Sabha Question No. 3376 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-20
Subject: Discontinuation of Ujjwala Yojana Connections
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: Smt. Mala Roy

3376.   Smt. Mala Roy:

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3376 TO BE ANSWERED ON 20th March, 2025

## Discontinuation of Ujjwala Yojana Connections

## पेĚोͧलयम एवं Ĥाक ृ Ǔतक गैस मंğी

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

the details of number of "Ujjwala Yojana" connections discontinued during the last five years and the current year, year and State-wise?

## ANSWER

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

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

Pradhan  Mantri  Ujjwala  Yojana  (PMUY)  was  launched  in  May,  2016  with  an  objective  to provide deposit free LPG connection to adult women from poor households across the country. The  target  to  release  8  crore  connections  under  PMUY  was  achieved  in  September  2019.  To cover the remaining poor households, 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  the  target  of  1.60  crore  Ujjwala  2.0  connections  was  also  achieved  during  December 2022.  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  during  July 2024. As on 01.03.2025, there are 10.33 crore PMUY connections across the country.

PMUY connections once released can be discontinued for reasons such as voluntary surrender, termination during subsequent de-duplication, detection of wrong declaration about ineligibility, exclusion due to subsequent ineligibility etc.

Year and State-wise, details of number of 'Ujjwala Yojana' connections discontinued/terminated  during the last five years and current year are at Annexure .

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Annexure referred to  Lok  Sabha Unstarred  Question  No.  3376  to  be  answered  on  20.03.2025 regarding "Discontinuation of Ujjwala Yojana Connections' asked by Smt. Mala Roy.

State/UT-wise and year-wise number of connections Discontinued/terminated under PMUY

## Scheme

| State/UT                              |   FY 2019-20 |   FY 2020-21 |   FY 2021-22 |   FY 2022-23 |   FY 2023-24 |   FY 2024-25 (Apr- Feb'25) |
|---------------------------------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands           |            3 |           16 |            3 |            1 |           17 |                         11 |
| Andhra Pradesh                        |          318 |          123 |           55 |           66 |           33 |                        126 |
| Arunachal Pradesh                     |            1 |           29 |           40 |            2 |            2 |                          4 |
| Assam                                 |         2283 |          831 |          681 |          708 |          937 |                        539 |
| Bihar                                 |        11819 |        11340 |         2888 |         2608 |         1242 |                       3223 |
| Chandigarh                            |            0 |            1 |            0 |            0 |            0 |                          0 |
| Chhattisgarh                          |         1215 |          791 |          281 |          503 |          133 |                        576 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli &Daman and Diu |            0 |            0 |            0 |            0 |            0 |                          0 |
| Delhi                                 |          894 |          499 |           75 |          779 |          175 |                         90 |
| Goa                                   |            0 |            1 |            0 |            0 |            1 |                          0 |
| Gujarat                               |         2055 |         1779 |          975 |         1186 |          839 |                        745 |
| Haryana                               |         4344 |         3911 |         1626 |          739 |          332 |                        293 |
| Himachal Pradesh                      |           54 |           32 |           52 |           73 |           82 |                        151 |
| Jammu and Kashmir                     |          299 |          947 |          164 |         1121 |          287 |                        330 |
| Jharkhand                             |         2186 |         1826 |          473 |         2115 |          403 |                        704 |
| Karnataka                             |         6306 |         3568 |          487 |          824 |         1367 |                       1182 |
| Kerala                                |          591 |          137 |          100 |           25 |           22 |                         77 |
| Ladakh                                |            0 |           10 |            1 |            6 |            0 |                          0 |
| Lakshadweep                           |            0 |            0 |            0 |            0 |            0 |                          0 |
| Madhya Pradesh                        |         9926 |        10032 |         1614 |         1670 |          666 |                        767 |
| Maharashtra                           |         7368 |         8346 |         2786 |         2963 |         1702 |                       2051 |
| Manipur                               |          174 |           78 |            4 |            6 |            0 |                        225 |
| Meghalaya                             |           84 |            4 |           13 |            4 |           79 |                          3 |
| Mizoram                               |            0 |            1 |            1 |            0 |            0 |                          1 |
| Nagaland                              |            7 |            4 |            1 |            1 |            1 |                          8 |
| Odisha                                |         1517 |         3622 |         1037 |          965 |          579 |                        886 |
| Puducherry                            |            5 |            6 |            2 |            1 |            2 |                          1 |
| Punjab                                |         2924 |         2820 |          772 |          434 |          344 |                        282 |
| Rajasthan                             |         9341 |         8487 |         1899 |         2059 |         1671 |                       2408 |
| Sikkim                                |            0 |            0 |            2 |            0 |            0 |                         77 |
| Tamil Nadu                            |         1547 |         3913 |          783 |          918 |          608 |                        886 |
| Telangana                             |         1885 |          910 |          122 |          206 |          131 |                        134 |
| Tripura                               |            0 |           81 |            3 |            0 |            0 |                         45 |
| Uttar Pradesh                         |        44235 |        18092 |        11905 |         9817 |         2386 |                       2192 |
| Uttarakhand                           |         2281 |         1284 |          229 |          209 |          120 |                        227 |
| West Bengal                           |        17764 |         4814 |         1392 |         2864 |          852 |                        777 |

Source: IOCL on industry basis