This month, LED hoardings inside several metro stations across Delhi show PM Narendra Modi on one side, CM Rekha Gupta on the other, and beaming Indian women in between. These are advertisements marking 12 years of the Modi government and celebrating the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) for making kitchens “Dhuan-Mukt” (smoke-free).
But what the boards don’t mention is that the government has just slashed the scheme’s benefits again.