HYDERABAD: Nearly six years after the Kalyana Lakshmi-Shaadi Mubarak scheme was launched to financially help the
poor parents
to conduct the marriage of their
daughters
, several instances of parents incurring debts due to delay in getting the
Kalyana Lakshmi
cheques have come to the fore.
Replying to questions of
TRS members
— Haripriya Banoth, Padma Devender Reddy, Ajmera Rekha and Ravishanker Sunke — in the assembly on Wednesday, BC welfare minister Gangula Kamalakar said the cheques were supposed to be given on the marriage day itself but was getting delayed due to time taken for verification of the applicants by the field officers.
To the request from Padma Devender Reddy to consider issuing the cheques in the name of the girl going for a love marriage against the wishes of her family, the minister said the government will look into the request as normally the cheque is issued in favour of the mother of the bride.
The government has so far handed over Rs 1,100 crore to beneficiaries during the lockdown period.
Some women legislators of TRS brought the issue to the notice of the House and urged the government to ensure that the cheque for Rs 1,00,116 is given to the mother of the bride on the day of the marriage