JAIPUR: After a gap of 18 months, the marriage season kicked off here with much fanfare with at least 3,000 weddings being organised across the city. Majority of the marriage lawns, banquet halls and budgetary hotels were booked. Despite Covid norms being in place, people were not seen following the guidelines.
TOI visited various marriage venues in C-scheme, Jhotwara, Gopalpura and others and found people were not following Covid guidelines.
According to an estimate by tent dealers association, at least 3,000 weddings were organized here on Sunday. “Around 4,000 weddings are planned for Monday. Thankfully, we are back to business and if people follow guidelines strictly, we hope to see the continued dip in Covid cases in the coming days,” said Narendra Sonkhiya, who owns a marriage lawn at New Sanganer Road.
Rajasthan tent dealers association said the wedding industry was all set to excel after a gap of 18 months. “We are expecting good business in jewellery, event management, hotel tariffs and others as on Sunday majority of the marriage venues were full,” said Arshad Hussain, a wedding planner in the city.
At a marriage venue at Cscheme, a guest who was without a mask said, “I have got both the vaccine doses and also suffered from Covid last year. I believe I have developed antibodies.”
Meanwhile, the administration need to be strict and there should be checks at the venues as Covid cases were showing a spike for the past three days.
“Covid is not yet over. People while going out to attend marriage functions and other public functions should be cautious and should follow guidelines including using sanitisers, following social distancing and wearing masks,” said Dr Ajeet Singh, superintendent of RUHS.
