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| Restructuring Marriage Assistance Scheme has significance: Rekha Mahajan | | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 17: The decision taken by the Administrative Council (AC), under Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, to restructure the State Marriage Assistance Scheme, will go a long way in helping the poor families in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
In a statement, Jammu and Kashmir BJP, Secretary, Rekha Mahajan, said that the restructuring of this scheme to enable any girl of legally marriageable age belonging to the families falling under Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) or Priority House Hold (PHH) ration card holders, to seek one time financial assistance of rupees fifty thousand, carries significance. She said that the provision of releasing the financial assistance in favour of the applicant before her marriage itself is significant as her family will get some sort of monetary help on time for required expenditure.
Rekha Mahajan further said that disbursement of the financial assistance through the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode will have no role of middlemen or agents, thus ensuring hundred per cent money reaching the beneficiary and plugging corruption.
"Prior to restructuring of this scheme, the amount of financial assistance was rupees twenty five thousand only and there was no time fixed for releasing the money", she said and added that in many cases the applications were not cleared even after months of marriage, thus deprived many genuinely deserving families of the benefits, she said.
Rekha asked the poor families of AAY and PHH categories to apply atleast one month in advance for the scheme, as mentioned officially, through proper channel with all the required documents.
She also stressed upon the Social Welfare Department to publicise this scheme through easily accessible means of advertisement so that maximum families are in a position to apply and avail financial assistance for the marriages of their daughters. |
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