<span style="color: #222222;">Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project Ujjwala Yojana will today achieve its target of providing 5 crore free LPG connections to poor families. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan will hand over the Ujjwala Connection No. 5 crore to the selected beneficiary at a function in Parliament in the presence of Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Ujjwala aims at bringing clean cooking fuel to poor households, identified according to the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC). More than 44 per cent of Ujjwala beneficiaries are currently are from SC/ST communities. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The scheme was launched by the Prime Minister on May 1, 2016, in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh with a target to provide free LPG connections to five crore poor households by March 31, 2019, with a budgetary allocation of 8,000 crore rupees. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The government will achieve this target nearly eight months ahead of schedule. Right from the beginning, the Ujjwala scheme consistently progressed ahead of schedule. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Encouraged by the rapid progress, the government in February raised the target to eight crore poor households by 2020 with an additional outlay of 4,800 crore rupees. </span><br />'' <br />