A Review of Strengths and Weaknesses of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Examining the Strengths and Weaknesses of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Abstract

The Modi Government has launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana with a goal to provide environment friendly clean cooking fuel (LPG) to women of rural areas in order to get rid of health hazards faced by them by using traditional hazardous fuel. The policy has multipronged objectives such as getting rid of hazardous traditional cooking in rural India, empowering women and supporting poor households for adopting green fuel. The examination of the policy reveals that it was initiated under the influence of reports of international bodies. The policy was launched without considering the conduciveness of the ground level conditions. The scheme has been interfacing various problems in its implementation. It has been found that despite rapid pace of its implementation, it has the same hurdles to face which other schemes had earlier. There are number of challenges before the PMUY. The launching of policy in haste reflects that it has also the political goals of policy framers.