{"id":305411,"date":"2019-12-12T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=305411"},"modified":"2019-12-12T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:24:28","slug":"lpg-cylinders-still-unaffordable-for-poor-cag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lpg-cylinders-still-unaffordable-for-poor-cag\/","title":{"rendered":"LPG cylinders still unaffordable for poor: CAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooking gas cylinders remain unaffordable for the poor despite a big push by the government to provide free liquefied natural gas (LGP) connections to disadvantaged households, according to a report tabled by the national auditor in Parliament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which examined the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), showed the government was able to reach 90% of the 80 million households it has targeted till March 2020 for free LPG connections. Illegal diversions of domestic-use cylinders for commercial purposes were a minuscule 0.25% of the total connections provided, the audit showed.<\/p>\n<p>The PMUY, popularly known as Ujjwala, is aimed at eliminating health hazards poor women face from indoor pollution by increasing their access to clean, smoke-free cooking fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooking gas cylinders remain unaffordable for the poor despite a big push by the government to provide free liquefied natural gas (LGP) connections to disadvantaged households, according to a report tabled by the national auditor in Parliament on Wednesday. Findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which examined the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), showed the government was able to reach 90% of the 80 million households it has targeted till March 2020 for free LPG connections. Illegal diversions of domestic-use cylinders for commercial purposes were a minuscule 0.25% of the total connections provided, the audit showed. The PMUY, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}