Marriages in India is an expensive affair, where lakhs and crores are spent to make the occasion grand. One young couple has taken stock of the situation around them and has chosen to sacrifice the extravagance. A young couple from Amravati decided to sacrifice all this after being moved by the plight of farmers, who were committing suicide reported Times of India.
Abhay Deware and Preeti Kumbhare decided to change the trend and utilize that amount which could have been spent on the wedding for a noble cause. The groom, an IRS officer undergoing training at the Nagpur-based National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT) and wife, working as assistant manager with IDBI Bank’s Mumbai branch, fell in love while preparing for UPSC and MPSC examinations.
Last Sunday, when they tied nuptial knot at Abhiyanta Bhavan in Amravati, the couple donated Rs20,000 each to 10 farmers’ families where their sole breadearners committed suicide due to mounting debts and successive crop failures. Additionally, they provided books of competitive examinations worth Rs52,000 to five libraries in Amravati, including at their native village Umbarda Bazaar in Karanja Lad. All this came from their hard-earned savings, which they had saved for the marriage.
