Marriage Grant for the Marriage of Daughters of Widows of Ex-servicemen (other than War Widows), Haryana

What is the Haryana marriage grant for daughters of ex-servicemen's widows?

Marriage Grant for the Marriage of Daughters of Widows of Ex-servicemen (other than War Widows) is a one-time cash grant run by the Department of Sainik and Ardh Sainik Welfare, Government of Haryana. The department pays Rs 11,000 to the widow of an ex-serviceman towards the marriage expenses of her daughter, and the same widow may claim the grant for up to two daughters.

The scheme deliberately carves out war widows. Haryana treats a widow whose husband died in war under separate and considerably more generous provisions, so this grant is meant for widows of ex-servicemen who died in other circumstances. That single distinction decides which form a family should be filling.

The Sainik and Ardh Sainik Welfare Department is the Haryana government's nodal department for veterans and their dependants. It operates through the Rajya Sainik Board at Panchkula and a Zila Sainik Board office in every district, and those district boards hold the service records that every claim is verified against.

Key points

• Rs 11,000 per daughter, paid once for that marriage.
• Maximum of two daughters per widow.
• Daughter must be 18 years or above.
• Applicant must be resident in Haryana.
• Applies to widows other than war widows.

Who is eligible for the Haryana marriage grant?

You can claim the grant if:

• You are the widow of an ex-serviceman and you are resident in Haryana.
• Your husband did not die in war, that is, you are a widow other than a war widow.
• The daughter being married is at least 18 years old.
• You have not remarried, or, if you have remarried, you married the real brother of your late husband, which the scheme expressly permits.
• You are claiming for the first or second daughter, not a third.

You cannot apply, or you are not eligible, if:

• You are a war widow, the scheme excludes war widows by its own title, and a different departmental provision covers them.
• The daughter is under 18 on the date of the marriage.
• You have already drawn the grant for two daughters.
• You have remarried someone other than your late husband's real brother.
• You are not a resident of Haryana. Each state's Sainik Board runs its own marriage grant with its own amount.

The Kendriya Sainik Board at the central level also runs a marriage grant for daughters of ex-servicemen, with different amounts and its own rules. The two are separate schemes; a family should ask the Zila Sainik Board which of them they qualify for, because eligibility conditions differ.

What documents are required for the marriage grant?

Keep the daughter's age proof consistent across documents. Where a marriage card shows one date and the Family ID another, the Zila Sainik Board will hold the file until the discrepancy is settled.

How to apply for the marriage grant in Haryana

1. Check the timing rules at the Zila Sainik Board in your district before the wedding. The Sainik Welfare Officer will tell you whether your case must be filed before or after the marriage date and what proof the board wants for your district.
2. Assemble the documents, discharge book, death certificate, the daughter's age proof, the marriage card and your bank passbook.
3. Register on saralharyana.gov.in with your name, mobile number and email, and verify through the OTP.
4. Open the Sainik and Ardh Sainik Welfare Department service list on the SARAL portal and select the marriage grant service.
5. Fill the form using your Family ID, enter the daughter's details and your bank account number exactly as printed in the passbook.
6. Upload the documents and submit the application.
7. Note the Application ID on the acknowledgement; tracking and any later appeal both depend on it.
8. Submit the originals for verification at the Zila Sainik Board when the office calls for them. The district board's recommendation drives the sanction, after which Rs 11,000 is credited to the widow's account.

An Antyodaya SARAL Kendra or a Common Service Centre will file the same application for a widow who cannot use the portal herself.

How do you check the status of a marriage grant claim?

1. Open saralharyana.gov.in and choose Track Application Status.
2. Select the Sainik and Ardh Sainik Welfare Department and the service, then enter your Application ID and submit.
3. Or send an SMS reading SARAL Application ID to 7738299899 from any mobile number.
4. Call the Antyodaya SARAL helpline on 1800-2000-023 between 7 am and 9 pm if the case has been sitting at the same stage for a long period.
5. For anything to do with the service record itself, follow up in person at the Zila Sainik Board rather than through the portal.

Why do marriage grant claims get rejected?

• War widow status. A claim filed by a war widow under this scheme is redirected, because the scheme excludes war widows by definition.
• Daughter under 18 on the marriage date.
• Third daughter. The two-daughter cap is applied strictly.
• Remarriage outside the permitted exception, that is, remarriage to someone other than the late husband's real brother.
• Service record not verifiable — a missing discharge book is the commonest documentary failure in Sainik Board claims.
• Bank details wrong, or a name mismatch between Aadhaar, the passbook and the Family ID, which causes the DBT transfer to fail after sanction.
• Residence outside Haryana, which puts the case before another state's Sainik Board.

Where do you complain about a delay?

• Zila Sainik Board, district headquarters. The first authority for verification and sanction disputes.
• Rajya Sainik Board, Haryana, Panchkula, for cases the district board cannot settle.
• Antyodaya SARAL helpline: 1800-2000-023, 7 am to 9 pm, for portal and tracking problems.
• CM Window, the Haryana government's central grievance platform, for complaints that remain unresolved after the departmental route.

What else should a widow of an ex-serviceman check?

Marriage Grant for the Marriage of Daughters of Widows of Ex-servicemen is one entry in a longer schedule of allowances the Haryana Sainik and Ardh Sainik Welfare Department maintains for veterans' families. The same department runs financial assistance for ex-servicemen aged 60 and above and their widows, additional pension for the childless widow of an ex-serviceman, and additional pension for 100% disabled ex-servicemen with children. The Kendriya Sainik Board under the Ministry of Defence runs its own marriage grant for daughters of ex-servicemen and for the remarriage of widows, on separate rules and separate amounts.

The practical advice for a widow visiting the Zila Sainik Board is to ask the Sainik Welfare Officer to review her entitlement across the whole list in one sitting; state schemes and Kendriya Sainik Board schemes together; rather than filing only for the Rs 11,000 marriage grant. Families frequently qualify for more than one benefit and claim only the one they happened to hear about.

Filing this claim is free. No fee is payable to any operator or agent for submitting the form or for "getting the grant approved", and no government officer will ask a widow for an OTP sent to her mobile phone.