'Wed in India': PM Modi's call to industrialists to marry in country

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that India needs a 'Wed in India' movement, calling affluent industrialists to hold at least one destination wedding in their families each year in Uttarakhand to help the hilly state emerge as a wedding destination.

His comments came during the inaugural session of the Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit where he said that it has become a trend for billionaires and millionaires to hold weddings abroad.

Modi had given a similar call during his last Mann Ki Baat programme to affluent business families to hold destination weddings in the country instead of going abroad.

"There is an old saying that marriages are made in heaven. But then why are young couples going abroad for their wedding instead of coming to the land of gods (Devbhoomi)? My prescription to the young and rich couples is that there should be a movement like 'Wed in India' on the lines of Made in India," he said.

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"If rich business families start holding their family marriages in Uttarakhand once a year for the next five years and even if 5,000 marriages start taking place here in a year, a suitable infrastructure will grow and it will emerge as a major wedding destination," he said.

"India has great power. If you decide collectively and make a beginning, anything can happen," Modi added.

With inputs from PTI