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Lighting up Lives Through Cooking Gas an...

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Lighting up Lives Through Cooking Gas and Transforming Society

Barua, Samir Kumar; Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar

IIMA-PSG0133 | Published March 31, 2020 | 26 pages Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

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The case recounts a significant attempt at social transformation through a simple mechanism of providing cooking gas to the marginalised in society. Targeting about 100 million households in India that still use dung cakes, firewood and coal as the primary fuel for cooking, the government conceived the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana1 (PMUY) to replace these traditional fuels with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), a clean fuel. The government increased the initial target of providing 50 million below poverty line (BPL) families with LPG at the time of scheme launch on May 1, 2016, to 80 million by 2019–20. The scheme had already covered more than 30 million families by January 2018.

The use and importance of public-private partnership (PPP) to manage megaprojects with significant social benefits. The importance of ensuring that all stakeholders have an economic reason to participate in the project. The role that government can play as a catalyst for social change. The use of technology to eliminate rent-seeking. Empowerment of women to bring about social change.