Updated On: 25 October, 2012 07:37 AM IST | | Kranti Vibhute
Scheme started in 1995 to encourage inter caste marriages shows upward graph; State Welfare Department has paid out total of Rs 53 lakh to 123 couples in past two years
u00a0you know that the government started a scheme to encourage inter caste marriages, and reward such couples with Rs 50,000? The scheme was started in 1995, and according to the state Government Resolution (GR), only marriages between members of the Hindu, Brahmin, Lingayat, Jain or Sikh community and members from the Schedule Tribe (ST), Schedule Caste (SC), and Nomadic Tribe (NT) are entitled to the reward.

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