Union Minister of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday distributed free LPG connections to under privileged women under the PM Ujjawala Yojana (PMUY) in Kakori near Lucknow.
Kaushal Kishore, minister of state for Housing and Urban affairs and Jai Devi Kaushal, MLA from Mahilabad, were also present on the occasion.
The event was organized as part of ‘Sewa hi samparn hai’ campaign of the BJP to mark PM Modi 71 st birthday.
Referring to other welfare measures of the Modi government, Puri stated that the Central schemes started by the Prime Minister were yielding results and people were benefiting from them.