NEW DELHI: Nearly 73% households in the country now have access to clean cooking fuel as state-run oil companies added 3.25 crore new LPG consumers in 2016-17.This is the highest-ever expansion of LPG consumer base in the domestic sector, being fuelled largely by the government's Ujjwala scheme to give free connections to poor households."Matter of immense joy & pride that the number of beneficiaries of PM Ujjwala Yojana has crossed 2 crore in less than a year!" PM Narendra Modi tweeted on Monday.

Matter of immense joy & pride that the number of beneficiaries of PM Ujjwala Yojana has crossed 2 crore in less than a year! #2CrUjjwala & mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 3, 2017