Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 13: A meeting of District Ujjwala Committee (DUC) for release of PMUY connections for uncovered families was today held under the Chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner(DC) Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad here at Conference Hall of the DC Office Complex to assess the status of PMUY applications and dissemination of scheme details.
Besides, the Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Syed Ahmad Kataria, the meeting was attended by General Manager DIC, Chief Planning Officer, Assistant Directors FCS&CA, DNO/Chief Manager HPCL, Senior Manager IOCL, Senior Manager, Bharat Petroleum and other concerned.
At the outset, the DC was given a comprehensive overview of the current PMUY application seeding process along with the robust checks and balances, rigorous deduplication measures implemented to prevent the issuance of multiple connections to the same applicant/Household.
On the occasion, the Deputy Commissioner/Chairman District Ujjwala Committee asked the OMCs to release the connections based on the prescribed guidelines. He also stressed that the District Ujjwala Committee(DUC) will periodically review the process and examine sample cleared KYCs on a random basis whenever deemed necessary.
The DC also asked for assessing the status of pending applications and their disposal within the district at regular intervals to ensure all eligible beneficiaries of Srinagar District are covered under the scheme.
The DC also emphasised on publicizing the benefits of the Ujjwala scheme at all ration stores, LPG sale counters and in local print and electronic Media for the awareness of the target population.
During the meeting, it was giving out that as many as 97000 connections have been provided in Srinagar District under Ujjwala scheme. |
