Haj: Govt clears 82,000 applications

          New Delhi: The Government has cleared 82,000 applications for Haj this year. This figure is 10,000 more than last year's, official sources said here today. "We had applications for 82,000 Haj pilgrims and the cabinet decided to clear all of them. The subsidy would be the same as paid last year," Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Gulam Nabi Azad told reporters after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here. The Cabinet also cleared proposals to add Guwahati and Aurangabad as new embarkation points for Haj 2005. Gaya has been now substituted as embarkation point with Patna in the list of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Calicut, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur and Srinagar.
- Oct 20, 2004

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