Lok Sabha Question No. 801 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-04
Subject: Connections issued under PMUY in Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: Smt. Delkar Kalaben Mohanbhai

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 801 TO BE ANSWERED ON 4 th  December, 2025

## Connections issued under PMUY in Dadra and Nagar Haveli

†801. Smt. Delkar Kalaben Mohanbhai:

## पेĚोͧलयम एवं Ĥाक ृ Ǔतक गैस मंğी

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

(a) the details of target set for issuing connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY);

(b) the number of connections issued under the said scheme in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli up to the current year, 2025; and

(c) the number of distribution network available across the country under the said scheme and the  number  of  distribution  networks  available  in  the  rural  areas  of  the  Union  Territory  of Dadra and Nagar Haveli out of these, district-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)

(a)  to  (c):  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 was completed during July 2024. As on 01.11.2025, there were 10.33 crore PMUY connections across the country including 17,742 LPG Connections in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

Government has recently approved the release of 25 lakh additional LPG connections under PMUY during Financial Year 2025-26 to achieve saturation of LPG access in the country. To further improve access, the eligibility criteria have  been  simplified  to  'Adult  women  from poor households based on submission of a Deprivation declaration'.

As of November 01, 2025, there are a total of 25,587 LPG distributorships across the country out of which 17,661 LPG distributorships are serving rural areas. These are served through 214 LPG bottling plants of Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) located across the country. In order to improve access of LPG in rural and remote areas, OMCs have commissioned 8017 distributorships, during 01.04.2016 to 31.10.2025 across the country, out of which 7420 (i.e. 93 %) are catering to rural areas.

District- wise, the details of 07 LPG distributorships serving consumers in Dadra and Nagar Haveli are as below.

| District               |   Number of Distributors catering to rural areas |
|------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli |                                                4 |
| Daman                  |                                                2 |
| Diu                    |                                                1 |

Source: IOCL on behalf of PSU OMCs

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