Modi’s free gas initiative stinks of corruption, say critics
Trinamool Congress activists walk with mock cooking gas cylinders as they shout anti-government slogans to protest against hike in the fuel prices in Kolkata, Eastern India on June 6, 2018. – EPA pic, April 28, 2019.
REENA Devi says her life changed when she got a cooking gas connection under a billion-dollar programme championed by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, meaning she no longer has to cook with wood or coal and breathe in smelly, toxic fumes. But the programme to connect millions of homes to gas, empower women and cut pollution – designed as a key vote-winning policy for Modi – has been beset by allegations of corruption and misuse.
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