The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas launched country-wide Pradhan Mantri LPG Panchayat scheme in 2017 to distribute LPG connections to the rural households where conventional fuel is used for domestic purposes and to give a boost to the existing Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY). It was launched as a back-up scheme of PMUY at Mota Ishanpur village in Gandhinagar district in Gujarat.
