Narendra Modi to launch Rs 8,000 crore scheme for free LPG connections to poor

Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi on Sunday, where he will launch solar-powered boats for plying on river Ganga and also distribute 1,000 e-rickshaws.

In Varanasi will distribute e-rickshaws & interact with beneficiaries. Will also meet prominent citizens of Kashi. Looking forward.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 1, 2016

The Prime Minister will then leave for Ballia district in eastern Uttar Pradesh to launch the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY). The PMUY is Rs. 8,000 crore scheme to provide 5 crore free cooking gas connections to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families.

Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana will be launched in Ballia. The scheme provides LPG connections to 5 cr women beneficiaries from BPL families. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 1, 2016

The scheme essentially using the money saved from 1.13 crore cooking gas users voluntarily giving up their subsidies, aims to provide cooking gas connections to 5 crore women beneficiaries from BPL families over the next three years. The Prime Minister will again fly back to Varanasi where will preside over a function to distribute 1,000 e-rickshaws to beneficiaries at Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) ground. Prime Minister Modi will then visit 'Jnana Pravaha', a centre of cultural studies and research, in Samne Ghat area. The Prime Minister will thereafter head to the Assi Ghat on river Ganga, where he will launch 11 solar-powered 'e-boats'. This is Prime Minister Modi's third tour of his parliamentary constituency since January this year