Kalyana Lakshmi - Shaadi Mubarak

Kalyana Lakshmi Scheme or కళ్యాణ లక్ష్మిపధకం and Shaadi Mubarak is a welfare scheme for providing finanacial assistance for marriages by the Government of Telangana, a novel scheme for all poor people in the state.^[1][2] The scheme gives an assistance of ₹1,00,116, and is aimed at preventing child marriages and support marriage expense for finanacially distressed families. By March 2018, the beneficiaries stood at 3,60,000.

History

The Scheme was launched by the Government of Telangana on 2 October 2014 by Chief Minister of Telangana, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao providing Rs51,000 to SC/ST families and later to all poor families in the state.

The Scheme

The financial assistance was increased to ₹1,00,116 on 19 March 2018 from ₹75,116. It is provided to the bride’s family at the time of marriage to meet the marriage expenses. The budget allocated, ₹1450 crores, for the year 2018-19.

Eligibility

A Telangana resident girl, over 18 years of age, belonging to any community with a combined annual income of her parents not exceeding ₹2 lakh is eligible for the Scheme.^[3][4][5]

Shaadi Mubarak

A scheme also covers Muslims girls from poor families called as "Shaadi Mubarak".

See also

• Telangana Language Day
• List of Telangana poets
• Telugu New Year
• Gram Jyothi program
• Mana Vooru Mana Pranalika
• Telangana Ku Haritha Hāram

References

External links

• Official site