Letter of Intents to 309 New LPG Distributors by : INVC Team Published on : 24 Sep, 2017 04:22 PM IST

Letter of Intents to 309 new LPG distributors By : INVC Team Published On : 24 Sep, 2017 04:22 PM IST

INVC NEWS Lucknow, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, today, distributed 309 Letter of Intents (LoI) for New LPG Distributorships at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, Lucknow. Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath and Hon’ble Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Govt. of India Shri Dharmendra Pradhan graced the occasion and handed over the LoIs to 10 new LPG distributors from the dais. Prof. Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Hon’ble Minister of Women Welfare, Family Welfare, Maternity and Child Welfare and Tourism, Govt of UP, Shri Ashutosh Tandon, Hon’ble Minister of Basic Education and Medical Education, Govt of UP, Smt. Swati Singh, Minister of State (I/C) for NRI, Flood Control, Agriculture Import, Agriculture Marketing, Agriculture Foreign Trade and State minister in the Ministry of Women Welfare, Family Welfare, Maternity and Child Welfare, Govt of UP, Shri Neeraj Bohra, MLA UP Assembly and senior officials from MoP&NG, UP Govt. and OMCs were also present during the occasion. Total 309 LoIs were handed over by Oil Marketing Companies to New LPG distributors during the event. These distributors have been selected through a transparent merit based system. There is a provision for financial assistance to SC/ST candidates by providing bank loan, margin money, and working capital loan with easy instalment schedule under the corpus fund scheme. This will usher in an era of socio-economic empowerment & employment generation for youth of Uttar Pradesh. During the event, the top performing District Nodal Officers (DNOs) of Northern India from Oil Marketing Companies were felicitated by the dignitaries for their exemplary role in taking forward the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana with all the stakeholders to fulfill the vision of smokeless kitchens pan – India. Addressing the gathering, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath said that under the visionary leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, PMUY has become one major contributor towards socio economic upliftment of underprivileged. The changes in people’s life are clearly visible after PMUY. The Chief Minister complimented all OMC officials for taking forward welfare schemes of the Govt of India like PMUY, PAHAL and ensuring that it reaches to the grass root level. He also said that apart from LPG, efforts should be made for encouraging production of Biofuels by setting up plants in Uttar Pradesh and also takes up sold waste management programs. He also expressed his desire that implementation of PNG projects in all major cities of Uttar Pradesh should be taken up on priority. He said that such initiative will lessen the burden of importing petroleum products and also contribute to the cleanliness of environment. He assured that the State Govt. will extend all support to such initiatives by petroleum Ministry and OMCs. Speaking on the occasion, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan told that there is a revolution sweeping through India’s hinterland – a quest for smokeless kitchens through empowering women folks. Refering to The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), Shri Pradhan said “a mission to wipe the tears of BPL women, which started at Balia by Hon’ble Prime Minister has touched the lives of more than 3 crore BPL families.” Shri Narendra Modi has created this revolution to take the clean and green LPG fuel to millions of economically underprivileged households by providing connections to the women member of the house-hold. The three public sector oil-marketing companies (OMCs), namely IndianOil, HPCL and BPCL are playing a pivotal role in the physical execution of the scheme. Since launch of PMUY scheme in Uttar Pradesh in May 1, 2016 at Ballia, 62 lacs new LPG connections have been released taking the LPG coverage to 77.1 % in Uttar Pradesh. Such massive expansion in LPG consumer base throughout the country warrants augmentation of supply & distribution infrastructure. To cater to this increased demand, Oil Marketing Companies are aggressively expanding their LPG bottling capacity and enhancing their distribution network. In this endeavour 3 new LPG bottling plants have been planned at Gorakhpur, Gonda and Varanasi at a total estimated investment of Rs. 463 crores. In addition to this, capacity augmentation of existing bottling plants at Trishundi, Unnao and Gorakhpur with a total estimated expenditure of approx Rs 260 crores will www.internationalnewsandviews.com also be done. There is also a plan to lay a LPG product pipeline from Kandla to Gorakhpur touching a number of towns in Uttar Pradesh. “In last 3 years we have added 1000 distributors and plan to add 1000 more in the coming year.“ Shri Pradhan added. He further added that owing to these upcoming projects in Uttar Pradesh, new employment opportunity in new LPG Bottling plants, cylinder manufacturing, stove manufacturing, transportation and supply chain will be generated. He also advised new LOI recipients that they should work to promote schemes of the Govt. and ensure delivery of the LPG cylinders at the door step of the customer. Earlier, welcoming the dignitaries and guests, Shri Sanjiv Singh, Chairman, IndianOil said that the exemplary vision of our Hon’ble Prime Minister and Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship has created a revolution which is as simple in its approach as it is effective. The monumental endeavour has brought new meaning to the term “Social inclusion” by acting as a socio-economic equalizer. It may be noted that subsequent to the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) scheme on May 1, 2016 at Ballia in UP; several regional launches took place for the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Bihar, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya to expedite enrolment of more and more of beneficiaries in the scheme. Within a span of little over one year from its launch, more than 3 crore beneficiaries have been released LPG connections under the scheme throughout the country. No wonder PMUY has become synonymous with women empowerment and social inclusion; as it aims to banish household air pollution (HAP) from kitchens, where not only the women, the children will also be saved from the harmful kitchen smoke which contains carcinogens – chemicals that cause malignancies, especially lung cancer. Studies say inhaling this harmful smoke is equivalent to smoking 400 cigarettes per hour.

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