AGARTALA, Aug 7 (TIWN): Prime Minister's Ujjwala Yojna has been launched in Tripura on Monday as Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated a programme dedicated for Ujjala Yojna in the presence of Tripura Food & Civil Supply Minister Bhanulal Saha at Rabindra Bhawan and other state leaders. Addressing the audience at Rabindra Bhawan, Dharmendra Pradhan said, “Today is a very auspicious day Rakhsha Bandhan and this gift of Ujjala Yoja is from PM Modi for her sisters living in Tripura. As per WHO-survey every year in India 5 lakh women die out of cooking smokes and till day there are crores of women in India who go to jungle, cut woods and bring them to home and many have to buy from the market at high price leading mass death of women in India out of cooking-smoke”. About Tripura the Minister said, “3 lakh 30 thousand subscription's proposals have been sent to centre".

"The LPG use by Ujjala Yojna is based on Zero-investment and if you calculate the cost of woods are more than LPG use”, Minister added.

Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY)(English = Prime Minister's Brightness Program) was launched by PM Modi on 1 May 2016 at UP. The scheme was launched with a target of providing LPG connections to 50 million below-poverty-line families in three years.

It is an ambitious social welfare scheme which aims to provide free LPG connections to BPL households in the country. The scheme is aimed at replacing the unclean cooking fuels mostly used in the rural India with the clean and more efficient LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas).