Girls plant ganja for dowry

atma · 06-25-2001, 07:24 AM

Gaya: Call them money savvy or greedy. But when girls in Gaya's Tekari sub-division found that marriage and the money don't come easy, they decided to fend for themselves.
And found a novel way out: 'invest' in ganja trees. Most of the upper caste families grow ganja in their courtyards and backyards. Young girls tend to these trees and later trade them when they need the money to pay for their dowries.........
The girls nourish these trees in all earnestness. Their home made manure is a deadly concoction of water mixed with milk. This made the ganja toxic and what's more, fetched a lot of money, the girls assured us. The returns are by no means small. Each manages to save at least Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 15,000 a year.
The police and the authorities are aware of the new 'investment' options that the girls of Tekari have come up with. But the girls are undeterred.