Question

State any five eligibility criteria of PMUY.

What are the eligibility criteria for a person to make use of the Ujjwala Yojana?

Answer 1

1. The applicant must be a woman above the age of 18 and a citizen of India.
2. The applicant should belong to a BPL (Below Poverty Line) household.
3. No one in the applicant's household should own an LPG connection.
4. The household income of the family, per month, must not exceed a certain limit as defined by the government of the respective union territory or state.
5. The name of the applicant must be in the list of SECC-2011 data and should match with the information available in the BPL database that Oil Marketing Companies have.
6. The applicant must not be a recipient of other similar schemes offered by the government.