• Yogesh B. Dhoke
• Sweta M. Rokde

The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was launched in the year 2016 with an objective to distribute five crore LPG connections to rural areas BPL poor women’s family on the basis of social economic cast census (SECC) free of cost by march 2019, this scheme is an important step towards decresing house hold air pollution, drudgery faced by women etc. According to WHO, over million people die prematurely from illness due to the household air pollution from cooking with traditional & old resources. Now, it is good time to assess the scheme (PMUY) & try to find out possible & necessary loopholes (if any),course of action & problems are facing by rural women’s as this scheme whether objectives are properly met or not because this scheme involves a public investment of over Rs.12000crore (Budget sanctioned for the ministry of petroleum & natural gas)and it is need to ensure that is this investment amount realizes it’s social objectives & simultaneously what are current status of the scheme, benefitted or not to deprived society and these are also objectives of this research paper.

PMUY, SECC, Household Air pollution, problem with rural areas women, Deprived society.

"Innovation & Advance Management Techniques for Sustainable Development", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.10-37, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCE06002.pdf

"Innovation & Advance Management Techniques for Sustainable Development", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp10-37, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCE06002.pdf