Lucknow :

A businessman, president of Daliganj Vyapar Mandal(Daliganj Traders Federation) but the identity of Daliganj resident Manish Gupta is much more than that.

Manish has been organizing mass wedding ceremonies for several years.

Here, girls who come from poor families get married in typical band-baja-barat style.

Manish has four sisters. In his struggling days, he sold even detergent powder in weekly market. He knows how difficult it was to arrange marriages of his sisters. So when his financial condition improved he decided to help in the marriages of poor girls.

He tied up with Daliganj Vyapar Mandal to get support in implementing his idea.

He also founded SarvSamaj Nirdhan Kanya Kalyan Samitia in which and only 5 couples got married. He also arranged wedding a ceremony in Ramdheen Lawn near IT Crossroad on November 2 in which 21 girls got married.

Manish told that he arranges marriage only after mutual consent of both the families. There is also a condition according to which groom will have to gift jewellery worth 30 thousand rupees to his bride.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Cities / by Navbharat Times / November 30th, 2017