A mass marriage conference was organised under the Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah/ Nikah Yojana in the Krishi Upaj Mandi premises Kareli under the presence of the State’s Panchayat, Rural Development and Social Welfare Department and Department of Labour Minister, Prahlad Singh Patel. On the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya, 257 couples and 9 couples got married under Nikaha rituals in the mass marriage program. Minister, Patel and other guests distributed benefits under the Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah/Nikah Yojana to the beneficiaries symbolically from the stage. He showered flowers on the bride and groom and gave his blessings. While addressing the program, Minister, Patel said that today I have come to participate in this event to give my best wishes to all these brides and grooms. Hearty congratulations to the bride and groom and their families on this auspicious occasion.

 

In such a big atmosphere of joy, if we get married at home, then perhaps only 100 to 200 people attend, but here thousands of people have participated. We have to keep this joy especially in our minds. This is such an occasion that today 266 brides and grooms from the entire assembly constituency are getting married on the land of Kareli. Minister, Patel said that former Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan started the work of marriage of daughters of Bhil community. After this, Chouhan became the Chief Minister of the state and he started the Chief Minister Kanyadan Yojana. Our mothers and sisters do not lack capability. We have made mistakes, we even started demanding dowry, but in the Bhil tribal community, dowry is not given when a girl gets married.

 

Tribal communities are still carrying forward their old traditions. Today there is a need for reform. If the government had not started the Mukhyamatri Kanyadan Yojana, then perhaps there would have been many poor people who would have been in debt for years for the marriage of their daughters and would have remained in debt. MLA, Patel congratulated the bride and groom in the programme. He said that Kanyadan has a great importance in Indian culture. Daughters take care of two families, one is the family where she is born and the other is the family where she is married. The program was also addressed by Nagar Palika President, Sushila Mamar and Ramsanehi Pathak. On this occasion, District Panchayat President, Jyoti Nilesh Kakodiya, former Minister of State, Jalam Singh Patel, Mahant Pritampuri Goswami, other public representatives, CEO of District Panchayat, Deelip Kumar, officers-employees, citizens and a large number of beneficiaries were present.