A total of 2,100 girls from poor families would be married in a mass marriage ceremony to be held on Tuesday at Gadhakota in Rehli legislative constituency of Sagar district. Panchayat and Rural Development and Social Justice Minister Gopal Bhargav will perform the kanyadaan of the 2, 100 girls in a grand function.
The minister has declared that all expenses related to provisions of food, band party and fire crackers will be provided by him. On the occasion, the newlywed couples would be provided with domestic goods under Mukhyamantri Kanyadaan Yojna.
The couples will also be given gifts by the visitors. Special arrangements have also been made to make the ceremony memorable for the couples that will get married on the occasion. Necessary arrangements have been made for registration of the married couples on the spot and also for providing information to the visitors.
Important personalities including, ministers, parliamentarians, legislators and members of civil society have been invited in the ceremony.
Notably, the minister had taken a pledge to marry more than 13,000 couples nearly seven years back. In the first such proggrame, he had married off 25 couples in Gadhkota locality. Since then, he has facilitated marriage of thousands of couples in such ceremonies.