evidence: One scheme of Government of India which has contributed immensely in making petroleum products consumption inclusive is Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), by which 58.3 million poor households in rural areas have been provided LPG connection at concessional rate during May 2016 to November 2018. PMUY was preceded by a scheme (DBTL-PAHAL) that enabled LPG subsidy to be credited to the target beneficiary’s account through the intermediation of banks. [...] Sixty five years into the struggle for economic development, policymakers in India in 2016, did realise that eradication of energy poverty is the single most important welfare measures that would facilitate economic well being of the people. Providing clean fuel for cooking was an enabling measure for economic empowerment of the households. Against this backdrop, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOPNG) with the objective of making clean cooking fuel available to rural poor households in the country, leading to improvement in the health of women and children, decided to launch PMUY—under which the OMCs would provide free LPG connections to women of BPL households, the cost of which will be borne parltly by the government and partly by the OMCs. [...] As on 1st December 2018 the Oil industry had released, 5.83 crore connections against a target of 8 crore to be done by March 2020. When the LPG connection count touched 2.5 crore, the connection was handed over by the then President of India Pranab Mukherjee to a poor lady Gouri Sarkar of Raghunathganj village in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. On 3rd August 2018, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan handed over 5 croreth LPG connection under PMUY to Takrdiran of Delhi.