Himachal Pradesh becomes first state of India where every household has LPG gas connections

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has announced that each and every household in the state has got access to LPG connection.
With this, Himachal Pradesh has become the first state in India where 100 percent households have LPG connections.
Around 1.36 lakh families of the state were benefited under the central government’s ”Pradhan Mantri Ujjawala Yojana” where gas connections were provided free of cost to women of rural areas.
Apart from this, the state government had launched ”Himachal Grihini Suvidha Yojana” to cover the left out families in the state, who were not covered under the Centre’s scheme.
As many as 2,76,243 families in the state were provided free gas connections under this state’s scheme.