- Organisation
- Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana state launch
- Location
- Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh
The Madhya Pradesh state launch of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) took place in Shahdol on 4 July 2016. Women from below-poverty-line families received LPG connections at the event; PRS's historical account describes communication and beneficiary-coordination work around that launch.
The independently documented event
The Press Information Bureau's event release identifies Shahdol, the date, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan. It says women from BPL families were handed LPG connections by dignitaries. This confirms a real state launch and distribution, but does not name PRS or assess its communication work.
There was also a three-state regional launch at Dahod on 15 May 2016. The two events should not be conflated.
Communication objective
According to PRS's archived case account, the assignment was to present PMUY as a public welfare scheme, communicate the availability of LPG connections to eligible women and help the media cover the launch clearly. It also sought to explain how the Madhya Pradesh government supported the national programme. These are aims recorded by the team, not proof of changed cooking habits or long-term health outcomes.
Work reported by the PRS archive
- Explain the scheme. Frame the announcement around its purpose and the eligibility of women from BPL families.
- Invite public attention. Seek a media response and use social channels to make the launch visible.
- Support the distribution moment. Identify eligible women and help avoid confusion as LPG connections were handed over.
- Continue the message. The archive says event video circulated on YouTube and existing hashtags were promoted.
The archived page does not identify the journalists invited, describe a verified RSVP process, link the video or name published articles. It also supplies no client statement approving a testimonial.
What can be reported as a result?
The government confirms the Shahdol event and on-site LPG-connection handover to women from BPL families.
PRS's earlier account reports public-information and distribution support, social promotion and an orderly event. These are first-party reports, without a surviving independent operational record.
No checked journalist attendance, article count, audience reach, video views, eligible-beneficiary count for the event or subsequent household outcome is available. No such figure is claimed here.
The separate G20 Presidency figures that once appeared alongside a PMUY-labelled homepage card do not belong to this Shahdol case and are excluded. No project-archive image is presented as a photograph of the event without a reliable event-specific attribution.
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Questions about the PMUY launch
When and where was the Madhya Pradesh PMUY state launch?
The Press Information Bureau records the state launch at Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh, on 4 July 2016. This is separate from the earlier three-state regional launch at Dahod on 15 May 2016.
What happened at the Shahdol launch?
The Press Information Bureau says Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched PMUY in Shahdol in the presence of petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and women from BPL families received LPG connections at the event.
What communication work does the PRS archive report?
The historical PRS case account describes promoting the scheme, encouraging media response, publicising it through social channels and helping identify eligible women for an orderly LPG-connection distribution. The public record does not provide a journalist list, event production log or individual coverage links.
How much media coverage did the launch achieve?
No verified media-coverage count, attendance total, reach figure or attributable clipping is available in the historical PRS case account. The government release confirms the event itself, not PRS campaign results.
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