GOVT SCHEME FOR POOR GIRLS MARRIAGE

In this scheme all the marriageable identified poor girls will receive One-time financial aid of Rs.25000/- and Cost of 5 grams Gold for marriage purpose

Marriage Assistance Scheme for Poor Girls

 

Social welfare department Jammu and Kashmir is established to safeguard the interests of poor and downtrodden sections of society i.e. people living below poverty line and people belonging to backward classes such as Scheduled Caste (SC), Other Backward          Classes (OBC), Physically Challenged Persons (PCP), Economically  Backward Classes (EBC) and De notified Tribes (DNT). Social welfare department launched numerous schemes for welfare of poor and distressed. One of them is State Marriage Assistance Scheme.The details of this Scheme are as below:

State Marriage Assistance Scheme (SMAS)

State Marriage Assistance Scheme is launched on the directions of the Honorable High Court in the case of Mohd. Amin Beigh Vs State and others. The State Marriage Assistance Scheme was launched by the Government in all the districts of Jammu Division. for poor Girls is a Social Assistance Scheme meant for those un-married identified girls of the State living below the poverty line who may not find themselves in a position to marry due to financial constraint.

BENEFITS OF State Marriage Assistance Scheme (SMAS):

This scheme is basically meant for those poor un-married identified girls of the State living below the poverty line who may not find themselves in a position to marry due to financial constraint. In this scheme all the marriageable identified poor girls will receive:

§  One time financial assistance of Rs.25000/- and

§  Cost of 5 grams Gold for marriage purpose.

Terms and conditions:

      I.        The beneficiary girl should be identified poor girls in the survey list available with the concerned DDCs/DSWOs.

    II.         The beneficiary girl should be above 18 years of age.

  III.        The beneficiary girl should be not have availed the benefit for the same purpose under any other State/Centrally sponsored Scheme.

   IV.        The beneficiary girl Can avail benefit only once under the scheme.

In order to avail benefits under this scheme the applicant needs to contact concerned District Welfare Officer.



For more information contact social welfare offices on address given below:

For applicants from Jammu division:

Directorate of Social Welfare Department, Jammu

Hajj House, Block-A, 2nd Floor, Near Bahu Plaza, Jammu 180012

Phone -0191-2472600, 2475700, 2478400

For applicants from Kashmir division:

Director,

Social Welfare, Kashmir,

Block-A, Directorate of Social Welfare, Old Secretariat, Srinagar

Contact No: 0194-2479645

Fax : 0194 - 2473761