Karnataka’s Brahmin marriage schemes: Rs 25,000 for deficient brides, Rs three lakh bonds for marrying deficient monks

LITTLE OVER a yr after its introduction, the Karnataka State Brahmin Building Board has got approvals to release two marriage schemes on a pilot foundation – one providing monetary bonds of Rs three lakh to 25 Brahmin ladies who marry monks from economically vulnerable background and the opposite providing Rs 25,000 each and every for the wedding of 550 ladies from economically vulnerable households from the neighborhood.

“We have now won the approval to release the schemes – Arundhati and Maitreyi – and budget had been put aside. We’re within the strategy of chalking out the procedures to avail those budget. This is a part of our efforts to lend a hand weaker sections of the neighborhood,” mentioned board chairman H S Sachidananda Murthy, a BJP chief.

Below the Arundhati scheme, 550 Brahmin ladies from deficient background will likely be given Rs 25,000 each and every for his or her marriage. Below the Maitreyi scheme, a monetary bond of Rs three lakh, which is for use over 3 years, will likely be created for 25 ladies who marry Brahmin monks from deficient background, Murthy mentioned.

“First of all, the Maitreyi scheme with the Rs three lakh monetary bond was once proposed within the identify of the bride who marries BPL Brahmin farmers or chefs or monks. On the other hand, throughout my excursion around the state, I discovered that monks have been economically very vulnerable and we made up our minds to release the programme for his or her get advantages first of all,” he mentioned.

The Maitreyi scheme would require the {couples} to stick married for 3 years to avail all the bond of Rs three lakh. Installments of Rs 1 lakh will likely be paid on the finish of each and every yr of the wedding, he mentioned.

The monetary assist for marriages is one of the social schemes that the Brahmin Building Board has get a hold of for utilisation of Rs 25 crore of finances budget allotted to it when it was once introduced through the then leader minister H D Kumaraswamy in 2018-19 length. The board was once created on the finish of 2019 when the BJP executive headed through B S Yediyurappa got here to energy. Murthy was once appointed as its first chairman.

Round 3 in keeping with cent of the six crore inhabitants in Karnataka belongs to the Brahmin neighborhood.

The board’s marriage help scheme is at the strains of every other scheme – Shaadi Bhagya – that was once introduced through the Congress executive in 2013 to supply Rs 50,000 for the wedding of ladies from economically vulnerable minority households. Yediyurappa had then criticised the scheme announcing it will have to be expanded to learn the deficient from all communities.

Consistent with Murthy, Rs 14 crore has additionally been put aside to assist scholars from deficient Brahmin households within the type of scholarships, fee of charges and offering coaching to people who have handed the initial level of examinations akin to the united states.

To avail advantages of the schemes of the Brahmin Building Board, candidates need to certify that they don’t personal 5 or extra acres of agricultural land, a residential flat this is greater than 1,000 squareft, that they don’t belong to backward categories or scheduled castes and that the circle of relatives source of revenue is underneath Rs eight lakh in keeping with annum.