Punjab to provide free LPG to BPL families

Punjab will provide free LPG connections to those BPL families, who were missed in the 2011 Socio Economic Caste Census on the lines of Pradhan Mantri Ujwala Yojana, a decision to this effect was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal yesterday evening.

An official spokesperson said, the State Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer



Affairs department has an E-PDS portal and the details of beneficiaries - under Household Priority and Antodaya Yojana - has been uploaded.

Aadhaar numbers of the beneficiaries have been seeded at the portal and the list has been de-duplicated with LPG Consumers Data provided by public sector oil companies to weed out identified LPG consumers from this list.