Building families
THREE EMINENT DOCTORS FROM THE CITY PERFORMED KANYADAAN AND HELPED THREE ORPHANS GET MARRIED
Straying away from the traditional kanyadaan ceremony where the bride’s father hands over his girl to the groom’s family, Dr Lingaiah, Dr B. Vijay Kumar and colonel (Retd) Dr Narayan Rao helped three orphan girls from the city get married by performing the ritual.
On Sunday morning, the doctors initiated the marriage of Lakshmi, Swapna and Renuka to Raju, Satish and Srinivas respectively in a grand ceremony at the Yashoda Hospital in Secunderabad organised by the Yashoda Charitable Foundation. The event attended by Tollywood actor Tanikella Bharani and S. Narsing Rao, IAS and Principal Secretary to Chief Minister of Telangana K. Chandrasekhar Rao, was also marked by the presence of several orphans.
The foundation has so far taught 2,051 orphans about life skills which has earned them jobs in reputed organisations. Now, it is helping them get married and settle down in life.
G. Ravinder Rao, chairman of Yashoda Hospitals, says, “We found that at orphanages, on attaining adulthood, they are let off to fend for themselves. We train them here and ensure that they settle down in life. Around 85 per cent of them are women and the rest, men. We find suitable grooms for the girls on condition that the grooms write a part of their property on the brides’ name. The hospital takes care of all the expenses.”
Interestingly, the doctors who performed the kanyadaan have no daughters of their own. ’ve been working as a doctor for 30 years. The void in my life of not having a daughter has been fulfilled by performing the kanyadaan. Initially, my family was astonished when I told them about this. Once I explained, they were happy
II’m a doctor since 1996. I feel happy to take up this cause. Even after the orphans are financially independent, they do not know how to go about their lives as they have no families. We want them to know how it feels to have families and relationships. More than building an orphanage, what is important is to ensure that the children are happy. Another reason why I took up the cause is because I have two sons and no daughters. One son is settled in the US and the other is working here. My wife and I are passionate about the rituals
fter serving the Army for 31 years, I joined the hospital. For three generations, there have been no girls in my family. When I was given the offer, I immediately took it up. It feels really nice to do this today A — COLONEL (RETD) DR NARAYAN RAO — DR B. VIJAY KUMAR