Indian businessman spends daughter's £90,000 wedding budget on the homeless

A rich businessman in India has donated 90 houses to homeless people instead of spending the money lavishly on his daughter’s wedding.

Ajay Munot thought of splashing out $116,000 on her daughter’s marriage ceremony but acted otherwise and spent the money on his area’s poor.

The wealthy wholesale trader of cloth and wheat hails from Aurangabad district of eastern India, where now he has become too famous for his generosity.Munot ordered construction of 90 houses equipped with electricity on two acres of the land, and chose who would reside there. His criterion was: they must be poor, living in a slum, and not addicted to drugs or alcohol.

The businessman’s daughter Shreya supported her father’s decision, saying it was “the biggest gift for her wedding”.

Munot and her daughter distributed the keys to the homeless for their new houses after the ceremony.

At a time when people are spending extravagantly on their daughter’s or son’s marriages, a businessman from Aurangabad did something which is indeed laudable.Ajay Munot, donated 90 houses to the homeless people instead of spending money on his daughter's marriage ceremony. Munot, who was about to spend Rs 70 to 80 lakhs for his daughter wedding, curtailed unnecessary expenditures for the noble cause.

 Munot took the decision after his family and friend suggested him to do so.

“This is the new chapter in history and I hope that the same concept will be followed by the other rich communities,” Munot said.

“We have some responsibilities towards our society and we tried to comply with it,” he added.

The bride also expressed her happiness and said, “I am very happy with the decision and will consider it as my marriage gift.”