Make LPG reasonably priced to poor households: Citizen group tells FM Nirmala forward of Budget

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Warrior Moms, a nationwide citizen motion group, has written to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday demanding provisions within the Union Budget 2023-24 to make cooking fuel reasonably priced to poor households throughout India.

The group has claimed that the letter has been endorsed by greater than 20 famous personalities, together with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, TMC MP Saugata Roy, DMK MP D Ravikumar, National Conference MP Farooq Abdulla, NCP MP Vandana Chavan and Justice (retired) Anjana Prakash.

“The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY) introduced in 2016 has given over 8 crore households access to subsidised LPG connections. However, the insufficiency of the subsidy combined with the difficulty of getting a timely refill hinders millions of households from switching to LPG,” the letter learn.

The group additional talked about within the letter that underprivileged households proceed to depend upon unclean fuels corresponding to firewood and dung muffins, leading to critical well being implications.

“Unable to afford cylinders now priced at over Rs 1,000 on an average, underprivileged households continue to depend on unclean fuels like firewood and dung cakes, resulting in serious health implications such as still-births, asthma, bronchitis, growth stagnation, decrease in life expectancy and high infant mortality rates. It is imperative to provide all our underprivileged constituents with heavily subsidised cooking cylinders and refills,” the letter said.

The group has urged the Centre to lift the subsidy quantity past the present extension of Rs 200, together with making the distribution of LPG smoother throughout the nation.

“It is disturbing to see the obstacles that women in urban-poor and rural households face due to the exorbitantly priced LPG refills across India. Continued usage of such fuels also has disastrous consequences on their health and well-being. We urge the Government of India to take this into account and raise the subsidy amount well beyond the current extension of Rs 200, along with making the distribution of LPG smoother across the country,” stated Warrior Moms in an announcement.

The Warrior Moms community stated that they’ve submitted round 5,000 postcards to Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Puri, urging the federal government to deal with the difficulty of family air air pollution by guaranteeing entry to and affordability of LPG for all poor households.

Household air air pollution contributes to 30 to 50 per cent of the ambient air high quality in India, they stated.

The Union Budget for 2023-24 will probably be offered in Parliament by the finance minister on February 1.

NEW DELHI: Warrior Moms, a nationwide citizen motion group, has written to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday demanding provisions within the Union Budget 2023-24 to make cooking fuel reasonably priced to poor households throughout India.

The group has claimed that the letter has been endorsed by greater than 20 famous personalities, together with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, TMC MP Saugata Roy, DMK MP D Ravikumar, National Conference MP Farooq Abdulla, NCP MP Vandana Chavan and Justice (retired) Anjana Prakash.

“The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY) introduced in 2016 has given over 8 crore households access to subsidised LPG connections. However, the insufficiency of the subsidy combined with the difficulty of getting a timely refill hinders millions of households from switching to LPG,” the letter learn.

The group additional talked about within the letter that underprivileged households proceed to depend upon unclean fuels corresponding to firewood and dung muffins, leading to critical well being implications.

“Unable to afford cylinders now priced at over Rs 1,000 on an average, underprivileged households continue to depend on unclean fuels like firewood and dung cakes, resulting in serious health implications such as still-births, asthma, bronchitis, growth stagnation, decrease in life expectancy and high infant mortality rates. It is imperative to provide all our underprivileged constituents with heavily subsidised cooking cylinders and refills,” the letter said.

The group has urged the Centre to lift the subsidy quantity past the present extension of Rs 200, together with making the distribution of LPG smoother throughout the nation.

“It is disturbing to see the obstacles that women in urban-poor and rural households face due to the exorbitantly priced LPG refills across India. Continued usage of such fuels also has disastrous consequences on their health and well-being. We urge the Government of India to take this into account and raise the subsidy amount well beyond the current extension of Rs 200, along with making the distribution of LPG smoother across the country,” stated Warrior Moms in an announcement.

The Warrior Moms community stated that they’ve submitted round 5,000 postcards to Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Puri, urging the federal government to deal with the difficulty of family air air pollution by guaranteeing entry to and affordability of LPG for all poor households.

Household air air pollution contributes to 30 to 50 per cent of the ambient air high quality in India, they stated.

The Union Budget for 2023-24 will probably be offered in Parliament by the finance minister on February 1.