New Delhi, Aug 29, 2016: Lady pensioner donates Rs 50,000 for LPG to poor ladies. Pitching for the federal 
government’s ‘Give It Up’ marketing campaign to voluntarily give up cooking gasoline subsidy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday cited the case of an octogenarian retired lady instructor who has donated Rs 50,000 for the programme to interchange the smoke-emitting “chulhas” (stoves) on which poor girls need to prepare dinner meals.
Lady pensioner donates Rs 50,000 for LPG to poor ladies.
“An 84-year-old retired lady teacher, who has given up her LPG subsidy, wrote to me praising the programme to provide cooking fuel to poor ladies to present them aid from ‘chulha’ smoke, and has despatched a donation of Rs 50,000 for the programme,” Modi stated in his month-to-month Mann Ki Baat radio handle.
“Try to think about the generosity of this pensioner woman, who’s donating Rs 50,000 to assist poor girls be free from the scourge of smoke-filled stoves,” he stated as Lady pensioner donates Rs 50,000 for LPG to poor ladies.
“It’s not a query of the quantity she has donated, however the goodwill and blessings of crores of ladies that reinforces my optimism in India’s future,” he added.
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