THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Five couples from financially backward families tied the knot in a simple and elegant function held at Sai Gramam, Thonnakkal on Monday as part the 84th birthday celebration of Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
This included a physically challenged couple and two couples from tsunami-hit Alappad area.
For the last seven years, Sri Sathya Sai Orphanage Trust has been organising mass marriages on the birthday of Baba. State Chief Secretary Neela Gangadharan inaugurated the birthday celebrations at Sai Gramam.
Each couple were gifted with 3 sovereigns of gold, new dress and household articles.
The Trust also arranged sumptous feast for the bride and groom and their family members.
Shaji and Seena from Alappad, Kollam, Dileep and Rajani from Kollam, Suresh and Sunitha from Varkala, Nissam and Sunitha from Perumathura and Manikuttan and Vichubhaya from Alappad were the couples who were married on Monday.
The Trust also organised mass marriage at Kasargod this year.
Two couples got married in the birthday celebrations of Sai Baba held at Kanhangad on Monday.
The birthday celebrations at Sai Gramam concluded with the staging of `Narakasura Vadham’ kathakali by Margi.