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Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], March 6 (ANI): Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren will formally launch the State Widow Remarriage Promotion Scheme today. Under the scheme, an amount of Rs 2 lakh will be given to a widow who remarries. Giving information about the scheme, the Secretary of Women and Children and Social Welfare Department, Manoj Kumar, said, “This scheme is being introduced so that widows can be brought into the mainstream and they can live with dignity…Any widow who remarries can apply for this; Within one year of her marriage…Rs 2 lakhs will be given to her…” “The widows …

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