Free cooking gas connections to 4 lakh families

Agartala, March 30: Over four lakh poor families in Tripura will be provided free cooking gas connections under the PMUY to ensure clean energy access to all and to protect the health of rural women, an IOC official said on Friday.

"Our target is to provide free Liquefied Petroleum Gas connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) to over 400,000 poor families in Tripura," state-run Indian Oil Corp Chief General Manager Uttiya Bhattacharyya told the media here.

Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday flagged off 50 mobile publicity vans to help PMUY benefits to reach across Tripura.

"Within 100 days, as many as 100,000 LPG connections under the PMUY will be handed out to poor families with IOC support," he added.