Last Dateed on : June 16, 2023 | Revenue & Disaster Management
Important Notice : This scheme has now been discontinued.
Many regions of our nation face numerous social ills associated with the girl child, including child marriage, female foeticide, and dowry. However, Assamese society has been notably fortunate in maintaining an absence of such detrimental practices throughout history. While the dowry system is not customary in Assam, it is a prevailing expectation among parents to provide a gift to their daughters during marriage.
The objective of the scheme is to facilitate the parents of the girl child who are economically not very sound, but like all parents desire to give some gold which is considered auspicious to them as gift daughters on her marriage.
The parents, irrespective of their social and economic status dream to bestow their child with love, blessings, and gifts. But for many, these dreams remain unfulfilled due to their economic weakness. Gold is always considered auspicious and an asset. The parents believe that a gift of gold ornament would enhance their daughter’s social and economic status.
Objective:
The Government of Assam has decided to introduce a New Scheme “ARUNDHATI” from the current financial year 2019-20. This has also been announced in the Budget Speech of the Hon’ble Finance Minister in 2019 -20 at point No – 40. The Government desires to share the joy of such parents who are getting their daughters married by way of providing Rs.-30,000/-as a token of blessings to the daughters of these parents for purchasing of Gold. The Nodal department for implementation of the ARUNDHATI Gold Scheme shall be the Revenue & DM (Registration) Department.
