Budget 2021: Govt extends free cooking gas LPG scheme Ujjwala for 1 cr more beneficiaries
Presenting the Union Budget for 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman on Monday said free cooking gas LPG scheme Ujjwala will be extended to 1 crore more beneficiaries. FM Sitharaman said fuel supplies were kept running without interruption during COVID-19 lockdown.
She further said city gas distribution network of providing CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households will be expanded to 100 more districts.
Sitharaman also announced a transport system operator (TSO) for regulating common carrier capacity in gas pipelines to boost gas-based economy.
According to Nirmala Sitharaman, this Budget will be the first of this new decade. Budget 2021 will also be a digital budget. Only three times has the Budget followed a contraction in the economy. This time, unlike before, the situation is due to a global pandemic. Budget 2021 provides every opportunity for economy to capture pace and grow sustainably.
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