Bengaluru sources stated that Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday demanded that Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) release additional LPG connections for the state's Mukhya Mantri Anila Bhagya Yojana (MMABY). Meanwhile an official statement stated that Kumaraswamy met Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday to seek his directions, saying that MMABY was "complementary" to the Central government's Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY).
Moreover Pradhan assured Kumaraswamy that he would examine the matter and consider it favorably. Accordingly the MMABY in which the beneficiary family is provided with gas connection, gas stove and two refills free of cost aims at universalizing the LPG usage and cover families which cannot be covered under the PMUY.
The statement said "OMCs had informed that they need to ramp up their
resources in terms of availability of gas cylinders, regulators, and suraksha
tube to release more than 50,000 MMABY connections every month”. Further in
order to realize the goal of kerosene free Karnataka, the connection release
capacity for MMABY should be increased to 1.5-2 lakh connections per month
along with the provision to pay the security deposit on behalf of the
beneficiaries to the distributors.
