Jammu and Kashmir’s Marriage Assistance Scheme, aiding over 1.5 lakh poor women since 2015 with around Rs 500 crore, continues expanding after the government dropped its contentious education eligibility rule, Maleeha Sofi reports Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

In the ten years since it was introduced in 2015, Jammu and Kashmir’s State Marriage Assistance Scheme (SMAS) has quietly become one of the region’s most far-reaching welfare interventions. Designed to support poor women at the time of their marriage, the scheme has now crossed an impressive milestone of over 1.50 lakh beneficiaries.

Launched during the BJPDP rule in 2015-16, the scheme was conceived as a social protection measure for the most vulnerable households. Each beneficiary initially recei

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