On 10th August, 2021, Hon’ble Prime Minister launched Ujjwala 2.0 from the Mahoba District of Uttar Pradesh to provide additional one crore LPG connections to adult women of poor households under PMUY with a budgetary support of Rs. 1600 /connection. In addition to existing eligibility criteria, following facilities have been provided to beneficiaries under Ujjwala 2.0:-

• Online Application facility on newly launched portal pmuy.gov.in
• Acceptance of self-declaration from migrants to declare family composition and address proof.
• Free of cost - first refill and stove.
• e-KYC using Aadhaar authentication

The target of releasing additional 1 crore LPG connections under Ujjwala 2.0 was achieved on 31.01.2022. Subsequently, it was decided to release additional 60 lakh LPG connections under Ujjwala 2.0. OMCs have achieved the target of releasing 1.6 Crore LPG Connections under Ujjwala 2.0 on 31st Dec’22.

Considering the pending applications and demand for PMUY connection ,Government has approved further expansion of PMUY by sanctioning 75 lakh more deposit free connections under the existing Ujjwala 2.0 guidelines.

In addition to support of Rs. 2200 /connection, First refill and stove will be provided free of cost to new PMUY beneficiaries.