The beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in India consume on an average 2.3 LPG cylinders of 14.2 kg annually which is about half of what a rural consumer consumes on an average, new research has found.
The research, published in the journal Nature Energy, suggeststhat while the PMUY has increased adoption of LPG among rural, poorpopulations, getting people to use LPG regularly is however a far moredifficult task.
Rural families on an average use 4.7 cylinders of 14.2 kgLPG annually, which is about half of what would be required by an averagefamily in India to cook exclusively with LPG, the findings showed.
The researchers also found that the programme which waslaunched in 2016 has fast-tracked LPG consumer enrolments by about 16 months inthe region assessed. Agencies