Current Affairs - Miscellaneous - Discussion

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, have devised 'Decision Support System' (DSS), a computer programme that will help maximise LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) connections in BPL (Below Poverty Line) households in the 'Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana'. The researchers were led by Prof Manoj Kumar Tiwari of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. DSS has found the optimum number of total (BPL) connections required in a region and the number of dealerships that need to be commissioned in a region over the policy time frame. It can predict how the number of household connections can be increased and the region that contributes most in each zone of LPG distribution.