It was not easy for 26-year-old Roshni Bhaduria, a Rajput, and Vijay Parmar, a Dalit, from Ahme-dabad to get married two years ago. Facing opposition from families, they had a court marriage with a few friends as witnesses. Both engineering graduates, the couple met at Wankaner in Morbi district where Vijay was in a private job and Roshni was attending coaching class for IELTS. What came as a blessing for them was the Rs 50,000 they got under the Gujarat government’s ‘Dr Savitaben Ambedkar Inter-Caste Marriage Encouragement Scheme’ that supports couples where one spouse is from the Scheduled Caste (SC). The couple live in a one-bedroom rented house in Chandkheda area of Ahmedabad, and bought a two-wheeler with that money. The amount has equal contributions from the Centre and the state. The Gujarat government raised the amount to Rs 1 lakh in 2018, which saw the number of couples availing of it going up from 502 in 2017-18 to 711 in 2018-19. Thus the amount spent by the Gujarat government also went up from Rs 31.7 crore to Rs 46.48 crore. Part of an initiative to “eradicate untouchability and encourage inter-caste marriage between savarna Hindus and Scheduled Castes” as per… Read full this story
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