{"id":306270,"date":"2019-12-19T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T05:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306270"},"modified":"2019-12-19T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T05:55:22","slug":"over-40-of-ujjwala-beneficiaries-not-vetted-for-duplication-cag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/over-40-of-ujjwala-beneficiaries-not-vetted-for-duplication-cag\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 40% of Ujjwala beneficiaries not vetted for duplication: CAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40 per cent of cooking gas connections issued under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) were not vetted appropriately to avoid duplication, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to rule out existing LPG connection in beneficiaries\u2019 household, de-duplication was to be carried out on Aadhaar of all family members. Audit noticed that out of 3.78 crore LPG connections, 1.60 crore (42 per cent) connections were issued only on the basis of beneficiary Aadhaar which remained a deterrent in de-duplication,\u201d the CAG\u2019s Performance Audit Report of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana said.<\/p>\n<p>This reflects poorly on the government\u2019s claims of PMUY connections being provided only to intended beneficiaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40 per cent of cooking gas connections issued under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) were not vetted appropriately to avoid duplication, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. \u201cIn order to rule out existing LPG connection in beneficiaries\u2019 household, de-duplication was to be carried out on Aadhaar of all family members. Audit noticed that out of 3.78 crore LPG connections, 1.60 crore (42 per cent) connections were issued only on the basis of beneficiary Aadhaar which remained a deterrent in de-duplication,\u201d the CAG\u2019s Performance Audit Report of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana said. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306270","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}