Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 14: Ch.Sukhnandan Kumar former Minister &MLA Marh distributed near about 100 LPG connections to the eligible BPL families at Gajansoo in Marh Constituency under Prime Minister’s Ujjwala Yojana which is a scheme aimed at providing 5 crore LPG connections in the name of women in BPL household in the country.
On the occasions former Minister said that purpose of this scheme is to replace the unclean cooking fuels mostly used in the rural areas with the clean and more efficient LPG.
Highlighting the objectives of the scheme he said,”the scheme aims at empowering women and protecting there health, reducing serious health hazards associated with cooking based on fossil fuel and preventing young children from significant number of acute respiratory illness caused due to indoor air pollution by burning the fossil fuel.
Ex Sarpanchs Harjeet Singh, Om Parkash and Satpal, Panches & a large number of people of the area we’re also present on the occasion.
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