NATIONAL LAUNCH OF PRADHAN MANTRI LPG PANCHAYAT IN GUJARAT
NATIONAL LAUNCH OF PRADHAN MANTRI LPG PANCHAYAT IN GUJARAT
The Pradhan Mantri LPG Panchayat was launched nationally by Shri. Vijay Rupani the
Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat in the presence of Chief Guest Shri. Dharmendra
Pradhan, the Hon’ble Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas & Entrepreneurship and
Skill Development, Govt. of India at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Also present on this
occasion were Dr. Kiritbhai Solanki, the Hon’ble Member of Parliament,
Ahmedabad(West), Shri. Shambhuji Thakor Deputy Speaker, Gujarat Vidhan Sabha
and Shri. Ashokbhai Patel , Hon’ble MLA, Gandhinagar
Government of India realized that eradication of energy poverty is the single most
important welfare measures that would facilitate economic wellbeing of the people.
Providing clean fuel for cooking was an enabling measure for economic empowerment
of the households. Against this backdrop, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
(MOPNG) with the objective of making clean cooking fuel available to rural poor
households in the country, aiming to improve the health of women and children,
decided to launch Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY). .. It is also expected that as
a result of using these cylinders, women will have to spend less time in the kitchen and
they will be able to use the time saved in productive pursuits.
PMUY was launched by our honorable Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modiji on 1 st May
2016 and till date the oil industry has succeeded in releasing connections to almost 3
crore beneficieraries across 710 districts of the country under this scheme in a short
span of 16 months.
The highlights of PM LPG Panchayat are:
Safety and efficiency: Safe, Instant and reliable
Health: Smoke free indoor cooking
Environment: Reduces air pollution, deforestation and desertification
Economic Development: Cheaper fuel leads to better economic opportunity
Empowerment: Improvement in quality of life
LPG Panchayat Brings together about 100 LPG customers near their living areas on an
interactive platform to discuss about safe and sustainable usage of LPG, its benefits
and the linkage between use of clean fuel for cooking and women empowerment.
The LPG Panchayat would be done in an interactive and participatory manner. Some
videos/audios would be used to set the context of the meeting. Some questions have
been suggested to trigger discussions on specific themes:
Sustained and Safe usage of clean cooking fuel would generate some
tangible and intangible benefits. Some of the tangible benefits show up
immediately (saving of time, cleanliness, convenience) and some are visible in
medium to long term (Health). Some intangible benefits are likely to be feeling of
rise in status and dignity. The idea is to trigger a discussion on the benefits of
clean fuel in the Panchayat through personal stories and experiences of
participants. As women who have begun to use LPG cylinders regularly share
their experiences, the message of clean fuel leading to women empowerment
and positive change gets reaffirmed.
Switching to clean fuel is often not a one-time process. Getting an LPG
connection is a onetime decision; getting a refill is a decision that is to be made
afresh every month or so taking into account several factors including any
emergency expenditure that the family needs to prioritise. Often LPG would be
used in conjunction with the bio mass chulha. This is similar to the experience of
many other countries. Some of the costs of using a bio- mass chulha may not be
apparent, hence a simple exercise on understanding the cost of cooking on
fuelwood/kerosene would be helpful.
Safe Usage – through demonstration and question and answers
o Feedback on service expectations and quality and any other issues
that are impacting the realisation of full benefits of PMUY.
o The LPG Panchayat can also be used for redressal of LPG service
related grievances also.
o Information about the LPG Panchayat may be disseminated through –
reaching out to influential people such as ASHA, Angandwadi workers,
PRI members, Primary School teachers; Public Announcement; Banner at
a strategic location
o Identify and invite a local woman leader a teacher, an Aanganwadi worker,
a SHG member, a nurse/doctor/health worker, a police person, a
businesswoman, a social/political activist, an advocate or an artist
someone who has pursued and excelled in an arena outside homemaking
and invite her to share her life story about how she managed her cooking
responsibilities and how when she freed herself from them (eased the
burden) was she able to play other roles in her life
Pradhan Mantri LPG Panchayat is thus an interactive communication platform of rural
LPG users which encompasses arena like safe usages of LPG, its benefit to
environment, women empowerment and women health motivate rural mass to use LPG
as fuel.
Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development said the following
during his address
a. He expressed immense pleasure that thru LPG he has been able to fulfill Hon’ble
PM’s wish of serving and upliftment of Women in the society.
b. Every year crores of women die because of smoke generated from household
cooking. With Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana this will change and women could
have a healthy and safe lifestyle.
c. Hon’ble Prime Minister while launching the PMUY at Balia on 1 st May 2014,
promised that 5 crore LPG connection will be given in the span of 36 Months and
in only 16 months today the 3 croreth LPG connection have been given to Smt.
Kokilaben Parmar from Isanpur Mota, Gandhinagar(dist.), Gujarat.
d. Pradhan Mantri LPG Panchayat is an initiative of the Government to reach the
doorsteps of poor and under privileged women to educate them about the safety
and efficiency, health benefits, positive impact on environment, economic
development and empowerment on usage of LPG connections.We will organize
one lakh LPG Panchayats to disseminate the positive impact of using LPG.
e. 106 new LPG distributorships have been added in 3 years in Gujarat and also
advertisement for 319 LPG distributorships have been published which will result
in jobs for 5000 people.
f. Ujjawala and Ujjawala PLUS will together help in reaching each and every
household of India with LPG.
The Pradhan Mantri LPG Panchayat was launched nationally by Shri. Vijay Rupani the
Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat in the presence of Chief Guest Shri. Dharmendra
Pradhan, the Hon’ble Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas & Entrepreneurship and
Skill Development, Govt. of India at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Also present on this
occasion were Dr. Kiritbhai Solanki, the Hon’ble Member of Parliament,
Ahmedabad(West), Shri. Shambhuji Thakor Deputy Speaker, Gujarat Vidhan Sabha
and Shri. Ashokbhai Patel , Hon’ble MLA, Gandhinagar
Government of India realized that eradication of energy poverty is the single most
important welfare measures that would facilitate economic wellbeing of the people.
Providing clean fuel for cooking was an enabling measure for economic empowerment
of the households. Against this backdrop, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
(MOPNG) with the objective of making clean cooking fuel available to rural poor
households in the country, aiming to improve the health of women and children,decided to launch Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY). .. It is also expected that as
a result of using these cylinders, women will have to spend less time in the kitchen and
they will be able to use the time saved in productive pursuits.
PMUY was launched by our honorable Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modiji on 1 st May
2016 and till date the oil industry has succeeded in releasing connections to almost 3
crore beneficieraries across 710 districts of the country under this scheme in a short
span of 16 months.
The highlights of PM LPG Panchayat are:
Safety and efficiency: Safe, Instant and reliable
Health: Smoke free indoor cooking
Environment: Reduces air pollution, deforestation and desertification
Economic Development: Cheaper fuel leads to better economic opportunity
Empowerment: Improvement in quality of life
LPG Panchayat Brings together about 100 LPG customers near their living areas on an
interactive platform to discuss about safe and sustainable usage of LPG, its benefits
and the linkage between use of clean fuel for cooking and women empowerment.
The LPG Panchayat would be done in an interactive and participatory manner. Some
videos/audios would be used to set the context of the meeting. Some questions have
been suggested to trigger discussions on specific themes:
Sustained and Safe usage of clean cooking fuel would generate some
tangible and intangible benefits. Some of the tangible benefits show up
immediately (saving of time, cleanliness, convenience) and some are visible in
medium to long term (Health). Some intangible benefits are likely to be feeling of
rise in status and dignity. The idea is to trigger a discussion on the benefits of
clean fuel in the Panchayat through personal stories and experiences of
participants. As women who have begun to use LPG cylinders regularly share
their experiences, the message of clean fuel leading to women empowerment
and positive change gets reaffirmed.
Switching to clean fuel is often not a one-time process. Getting an LPG
connection is a onetime decision; getting a refill is a decision that is to be made
afresh every month or so taking into account several factors including any
emergency expenditure that the family needs to prioritise. Often LPG would be
used in conjunction with the bio mass chulha. This is similar to the experience of
many other countries. Some of the costs of using a bio- mass chulha may not be
apparent, hence a simple exercise on understanding the cost of cooking on
fuelwood/kerosene would be helpful.
Safe Usage – through demonstration and question and answers
o Feedback on service expectations and quality and any other issues
that are impacting the realisation of full benefits of PMUY.
o The LPG Panchayat can also be used for redressal of LPG service
related grievances also.
o Information about the LPG Panchayat may be disseminated through –
reaching out to influential people such as ASHA, Angandwadi workers,
PRI members, Primary School teachers; Public Announcement; Banner at
a strategic location
o Identify and invite a local woman leader a teacher, an Aanganwadi worker,
a SHG member, a nurse/doctor/health worker, a police person, a
businesswoman, a social/political activist, an advocate or an artist
someone who has pursued and excelled in an arena outside homemaking
and invite her to share her life story about how she managed her cooking
responsibilities and how when she freed herself from them (eased the
burden) was she able to play other roles in her life
Pradhan Mantri LPG Panchayat is thus an interactive communication platform of rural
LPG users which encompasses arena like safe usages of LPG, its benefit to
environment, women empowerment and women health motivate rural mass to use LPG
as fuel.
Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development said the following
during his address
a. He expressed immense pleasure that thru LPG he has been able to fulfill Hon’ble
PM’s wish of serving and upliftment of Women in the society.
b. Every year crores of women die because of smoke generated from household
cooking. With Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana this will change and women could
have a healthy and safe lifestyle.
c. Hon’ble Prime Minister while launching the PMUY at Balia on 1 st May 2014,
promised that 5 crore LPG connection will be given in the span of 36 Months and
in only 16 months today the 3 croreth LPG connection have been given to Smt.
Kokilaben Parmar from Isanpur Mota, Gandhinagar(dist.), Gujarat.
d. Pradhan Mantri LPG Panchayat is an initiative of the Government to reach the
doorsteps of poor and under privileged women to educate them about the safety
and efficiency, health benefits, positive impact on environment, economic
development and empowerment on usage of LPG connections.We will organize
one lakh LPG Panchayats to disseminate the positive impact of using LPG.
e. 106 new LPG distributorships have been added in 3 years in Gujarat and also
advertisement for 319 LPG distributorships have been published which will result
in jobs for 5000 people.
f. Ujjawala and Ujjawala PLUS will together help in reaching each and every
household of India with LPG.
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