About Assam Arundhati Swarna Yojana
Many parts of our country are plagued with social evils surrounding the girl child, like child marriage, female foeticide, dowry, etc. But the Assamese society, from time immemorial, is fortunate to be free from such evils. Though there is no dowry system prevalent in Assam, the parent of every girl desires to give something to the girl during her marriage. The parents, irrespective of their social and economic status dream to bestow their child with love, blessings, and gifts, 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, But there are many parents who cannot afford to buy gold for their daughter’s wedding ceremony,
so thinking of those parents, Assam Government has launched this Arundhati Scheme to facilitate financial assistance to buy gold for their daughter’s wedding. Through this scheme, the Assam government will provide financial assistance of Rs 40,000 to those poor parents to gift them gold as a blessing for their daughter’s wedding.
Objective Of The Scheme
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 their as gift daughters on her marriage
Full Overview Of Assam Arundhati Swarna Yojana
| Name Of Scheme | Assam Arundhati Swarna Yojana |
| Launched By | Govt Of Assam |
| State Name | Assam |
| Implementation | 2019-2020 |
| Objectives | Providing financial assistance to poor parents in Assam so that they can buy gold at the time of their daughter’s wedding |
| Incentive | Rs 40,000 / |
| Beneficiaries | Daughters Of Poor Families Whose marriage is finaled |
| Application Starts | Always Open |
| Process | Offline/Online Registration |
| Official Website | https://arundhati.nic.in/index.php |
Eligibility Criteria
- 1. The bride and groom should have attained the legal age of 18 years and 21 years respectively at the time of registration of the marriage.
- 2. The marriage of the applicant should be registered under the Special Marriage Act, of 1954.
- 3. The applicant should have solemnized her marriage on or after 1st of December, 2019.
- 4. The applicant should have registered her marriage on or after 1st of January 2020.
- 5. The applicant girl should apply for the benefit under Arundhati Gold Scheme on the same day that she applies for marriage registration.
- 6. The total income of parents of the applicant girl should be below Rs 5.00 Lakh per annum.
- 7. The applicant girl can avail this benefit for her first marriage only.
- 8. Both the bride and the groom must have passed at least HSLC or equivalent Except Tea Tribe including Adivasi communities of the State. 9. No minimum educational qualification is required in case of Tea Tribe including Adivasi communities for next five years, as most of the Tea Gardens in the State of Assam do not have High School facility
Benefits
The government of Assam will provide financial assistance of Rs 40,000 to all eligible parents to buy 1 tola or 10 grams of gold during the marriage ceremony of their daughter.
Required Documents
Documents required to ascertain the eligibility criteria of the Applicant girl :
- 1. Document for proof of age
a)Other than Tea Tribe and Adivasi Communities – HSLC/CBSE or equivalent pass certificate as proof of age whereby the bride should have attained the legal age of 18 years and the groom shall have attained the age of 21 years respectively.
b) Tea Tribe including Adivasi Communities – Birth Certificate of both bride and groom issued by notified authority or any academic certificate as proof of age or certificate through medical examination only from competent authority as a proof of age to ascertain the bride and groom have attained age of 18 years and 21 years at time of registration of marriage under Special Marriage Act, 1954
- 2. The attested copy of Certificate of Marriage, issued by the Marriage Officer, in the form specified in the fourth schedule of Special Marriage (Assam) Act, 1954.
- 3. The income certificate of parents of the applicant issued by the Circle Officer of the area in which she resided permanently with her parents.
- 4. Bank Account details of the beneficiary/ copy of Bank passbook of the beneficiary.
- 5. A certificate issued by the Gaonburah/Mouzadar of the village in which the girl resided with her parents before marriage stating that this is the first marriage of the applicant girl.
How To Apply
This scheme can be applied both online and offline, we have discussed both the application process below
The applicant shall apply for Arundhati Gold Scheme on the day of applying for the registration of Marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954
Online Application Method
Follow the below steps to apply online for Assam Arundhati Scheme
- First of all, visit the official website of this scheme; whose link we have provided below for your convenience
- After that, the official website homepage will open in front of you, here you have to click on the ‘Apply Online” option, as shown in the image below.
- After clicking on the “Apply Online” option, an application form will open in front of you
- Now language option will appear on the screen, choose your language in which you would like to fill the form
- Fill all the required information in the application form very carefully and check it once after filling to avoid any mistakes.
- Then you have to Enter the captcha code that appears on the screen and take a print out of the filled application form
- now you need to finally submit your application form by clicking submit button
The applicant must take the printout of the form before submission, sign the declaration part of the printed form and submit the same physically along with a copy of all documents listed at Point D above, in the office of the concerned Marriage Registration Officer. The list of Sub Register offices where the application form under the Arundhati Gold Scheme and its enclosures can be submitted is given in Point F of the guidelines.
The applicant shall receive a receipt on submission of her application and required enclosures from the office of Marriage Registering Officer where the form has been submitted.
The information on acceptance/rejection of the application will be communicated to the applicant by SMS and email (on the Mobile No/ email id given in the online application form).
If the application is accepted, the amount as eligible under the scheme shall be transferred to the Bank account of the applicant by the Inspector General of Registration through Direct Benefits Transfer(DBT) mode. The Bank A/c No shall be the same as per details given in online form where Bank A/c No. with IFSC code has been given.
Offline Application
Contact your concerned government office (BDO, SDO,etc) or revenue department to apply for this scheme offline.
How To Check Your Arundhati Swarna scheme status
- To check the status of your application in this scheme first you need to visit the official website of this scheme whose link we have already provided above.
- Then you have to click on the “track Status” option,as shown in below image
- Enter your application number, mobile number and captcha code appears on the screen
- Click “submit” and the status will appear on the screen
Procedure To Re-fix the Date Of Document Verification
- to re-fix the date of document verification you need to visit again the official website of this scheme
- Then you have to click on the “reflix” option,as shown in below image
- Enter your application number, mobile number and captcha code appears on the screen
- Click the “submit” option and re-fix the date.