Mysore/Mysuru: It will be wedding bells for 12 couples who are going to tie knot at the ‘Saptapadi’ mass marriage ceremony organised by the district administration in association with Muzrai and Religious Endowment Department at Srikanteshwara temple in Nanjangud tomorrow (Dec.10).
This is the first ‘Saptapadi’ programme to take place this year after Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa launched the programme on Jan.10, 2020, under which the Muzrai temples will bear the marriage expenses, which is estimated at about Rs. 55,000 per couple. The Government which had initially planned to hold the first mass marriage programme of the year in April, was forced to postpone it in the wake of the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
