# Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is launched

Date: 2016

## The fact

On 1 May 2016 Prime Minister [Narendra Modi](/people/narendra-modi) launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in Ballia, a scheme to provide LPG connections to women in poor households.

## Context

The Petroleum Ministry and OMCs implemented. Connection is not the same as sustained refill. He owned the scheme. He did not sit as every distributor. Later target expansions are neighbouring later administrative acts.

Jan Dhan plumbing is a neighbouring earlier inclusion file. Refill-price shocks are neighbouring later price instruments.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Prime Minister’s Office of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [household purchasing power](/drivers/household-purchasing-power) and health: a completed LPG-connection scheme is a dated clean-cooking access instrument, with refill still a price path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 1 May 2016 launch of Ujjwala as a subsidised LPG-connection scheme for poor women.

Not established: that every later connection was refilled monthly, or a unique later indoor-PM coefficient from launch day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

OMCs issued connections. The Petroleum Ministry administers.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is launched, not a later speech about Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is launched.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is launched on 2016-05-01 is not a licence to treat every later Prime Minister’s Office of India communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is launched into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He launched the scheme. OMCs issued connections. The Petroleum Ministry administers. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

## People

- Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi

## Drivers

- Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power
- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-modi-lpg-idUSKCN0XS0Y4
- https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=142608

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/in-ujjwala-2016