Shun destination weddings abroad, be vocal for local, PM Modi urges ‘big families’

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Making a pitch for holding destination weddings within the country instead of overseas venues, PM Modi in his Mann ki Baat
members, who else do I do it with? Just ponder, these days a new milieu is being created by some families to go abroad and conduct
service or the other at such weddings and even the poor would tell their children about the occasion
the kind of system you want may not be there today, but if we organise such events, systems will also develop
This is a topic related to very big families
economy and was a guarantee of employment
festivals and should extend to weddings
He said some trade organisations had estimated that there could be business of around Rs 5 lakh crore during this wedding season.The PM also
highlighted the declining trend of cash payments during Diwali as more people were now making digital payments
He urged people to try not to use cash at all for a month and make payments only through UPI or other digital mediums
wedding celebrations within India