MATCH MAKERS

Investigative Report
 farman 2k12

MATCH MAKERS

What is MATCH-MAKING?

Match making is the process of matching two people together, usually for the purpose of marriage.

ROLE OF MATCH MAKERS:

In world women ratio is more than men and for marriages we are facing a lot of problems and matchmakers are the person who arranges the marriages in our society, they are the people who are social and doing all this as a business. In Pakistan, this culture is very common. In early time people specially women were used to do this work but to seek reward as a social work helping others to find suitable spouses and getting them married. But now match making is a business in all over the world and the only sources is to become a good match maker you must have a lot of contacts and you have to be a social person you can easily work through your mobile phone too. It has became a business from which many people are  earning a lot, some people runs their marriage bureaus and some work individually and some works in groups, few women and few men as a partner. Some widowed and divorced women are needy and are in this profession for earning some amount of money because they don’t have any other sources of earning. Some work through online websites there are a lot of sites of marriage matrimony.

Now a day’s match makers are playing a vital role in our society, these women contribution is that they are decreasing the ratio because they do work for every class and every culture. They do not work only for singles but for widow, divorced and disable persons. Because men and women are not complete without marriages and they want to marry with the girl or a boy with some requirements and the match maker completes the requirement of the people by finding such person who is like the requirement of other. And the very common requirements of every man are girl must have to be beautiful and well educated and every girl demands that man must have to be well educated, Good job and a heavy salary, and there are some requirements of families too that girl or boy must be from good and rich families very few people don’t care about the standards of family but mostly families do.

MATCHMAKING IN HYDERABAD:

The most common way of their work is they go to every social event where they introduce them self as a match maker they ask the people who are worried about their relatives marriages that they work as a match maker and they have a lot of costumers who are looking for the partners . Those aren’t social in our society and worried about their loved once marriages they prefer these women. They call or meet them and ask them to visit our place, for that they charge some amount like Rs.2000 or 1000 for the first visit and they bring some photos and show these photos on the first visit photos of other costumers those are already looking for the girl or a boy or sometimes you have to I submit Rs 5,000 registration fee and they will promise you to find an excellent match. They also tell them information of them that we have a costumer who is looking for a partner and they have some requirement every family have some requirements if any of person is up to their requirements they arrange their meeting where both families meets if the both family got ready for the match and the marriage after investigation or without investigation then both families have to pay half amount of their deal which is about 10,000rs and remaining 10,000rs will be given after the marriage and the total charges of these women are about Rs.20,000 most common but depends upon the costumer how the costumer is the charges changes on every costumer and  for international marriages they charge more.

EVENTS:

Many registered and professional marriage bureaus mostly arrange an event and invite all the applicants, where they meet and if they like anybody so they exchange their contacts and settled down everything.

PROBLEMS AND ISSUES:

There are some issues and problems of these match-makers like, they use unfair tactics to extract maximum money from the citizens, who are having problems in finding suitable matches for their children due to financial and social constraints. After receiving money they don’t give response and these people always tell you that these matters “take time”. These people approach their customers with their attractively worded and well-phrased ads in different newspapers. They ask to fill out registration forms, take a large amount of money and never send any one. They don’t even bother to pick up your phone when you call them after paying money. After taking the money, they even refused to recognize you. They are not responsible for anything and you cannot claim. They won’t tell you the real age, education, prestige E.T.C. mostly they lie just for the sake of money they don’t care about the future of that couple what it will be. They hide reality sometimes even they tell families that don’t tell this or that. If you will consult to a high profile marriage bureaus their demands are too high and you have to pay a good amount. Than families whom they introduce you they have a lot demands like dowry and car and girls family should support financially. Girl’s family want a guy from higher class and a man have separate home.

Instead of depending on such people we should also investigate it’s not wrong to consult with match makers or marriage bureau for marriages they are now very important because the ratio of girls is more than boys, but we should not totally depend upon these people we our own self should have to investigate because they mostly lie they don’t care about others the thing only they care about is money.

Farman Ali Baat

2k12/mc/30.

This practical work was carried out under Supervision of Sir Sohail Sangi