Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojana creating Storm over virginity tests

Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojana is a mass wedding ceremony under the state government-sponsored scheme where all the expense in the marriage is done by stat government and also some utensils and goods worth Rs 5,000 given by the government to the newly married couple.

In order to get the utensils and goods given by the government Often pregnant women were also made to sit in the mandap by the middle-men who lured them with the promise of money apart from cases of married couple registering themselves for the marriage again. To avoid these malpractices The brides were made to undergo physical tests.

The incident occurred in Shahdol. where No less than 152 girls were participating in the mass marriage under the Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojana. Not just the girls who were about to tie knot, faced tremendous embarrassment, their families were outraged by the unusual check.

This virginity tests during mass marriage ceremony creating a major controversy for the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government. Though government officials say that the manner in which the tests were conducted was wrong, they claim that the aim was to check the malpractices reported recently.