VILLUPURAM: Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy gave away 121 free gas stove and cooking gas connections to beneficiaries of the free gas scheme at a function held here on Friday.
He said that as against a target of 62,866 free gas connections fixed for Villupuram district, 42,880 had been given.
The State government had earmarked Rs. 220 crore for the implementation of the scheme.
The government was incurring an expenditure of Rs. 1,990 per gas connection: gas stove, Rs. 940; deposit, Rs. 950 and regulator, Rs. 100, Mr. Ponmudy said.
Collector R.Palanisamy and officials were present
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