Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s government has decided to perform marriages for 1,300 couples from the minority community for the welfare of the Muslim community. For this, the grant has also been withdrawn in the current financial year. It has decided to provide financial assistance to 1,300 couples across the state.

It has been decided to give this grant under the mass marriage scheme of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and this scheme was formulated only last year.

Earlier, various departments of Uttar Pradesh government used to provide financial assistance for the marriage of poor people belonging to the minority community. Meanwhile, the Social Welfare Department of Uttar Pradesh Government has been made the nodal agency for mass marriage of Muslims. Grants raised by various departments of Uttar Pradesh State Government have been transferred to this agency.

At present, Rs 600 crore has been allocated to subsidize mass marriages of Muslim poor families across the state of Uttar Pradesh. Collected and stored. This is just the calculation of this financial year, the Uttar Pradesh government till August last Rs 81.76 crore. spent.

In the current financial year, Uttar Pradesh statewide social welfare department has performed a total of 16,033 mass marriages from April to August. Out of these, 1,387 minority couples were married. In addition, 9,374 couples from the Dalit community were married. 4,649 couples from the OBC community and 623 couples from the general category got married in the mass marriage programme.

Moradabad division has the lion’s share of mass marriages performed across the state of Uttar Pradesh. A total of 1,567 mass marriages took place in this division. Besides, 1,409 mass marriages were held in Varanasi, 1,274 in Lucknow, 1,035 in Kanpur, 1,014 in Ayodhya, 962 in Meerut, 934 in Prayagraj, 933 in Gorakhpur and 871 in Bareilly.

At present, the social welfare department of Uttar Pradesh is receiving a huge number of applications for mass marriages. According to this scheme, the government will give a total of Rs 51 thousand to the bride after marriage. will give Out of this Rs 35 thousand will be transferred to the bride’s account. The rest of the money is given to the bride by the government to buy necessary things for her wedding. However, the groom did not get any financial help from the government. This scheme is only applicable to any caste, religion couple below poverty line.