This is the third hike for the number of pilgrims who can conduct Haj has increased to 2 lakh.
After Prime Minister has talked with SAudi Prince Mohammed Bin or R Salman, the ministry of External Affairs announced the rate of increase among the pilgrims.
Women will be traveling alone for Haj that is without a male companion.
In the past three years, it has been the third hike for the number of pilgrims who can conduct Haj has increased to 2 lakh.
An increase of 25,000 of Haj quota was raised from the country for its pilgrims.
After Prime Minister has talked with Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin or R Salman, the Ministry of External Affairs announced the rate of increase among the pilgrims.
The secretary of economic relations TS Tirumurti said that the initiation of enhanced quota would solely depend on logistics and other goods.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Minority Affairs Minister, said this decision will come to be practiced from the current year.
Naqvi was happy at the decision made by PM and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul Aziz and external welfare minister Sushma Swaraj.
This year women will be traveling alone for Haj that is without a male companion. This time around 2340 women will go alone for Haj.
After Indonesia, India is the second highest to sent people for Haj. Even last year around 1300 women traveled without male companions.
Saudi Arabia has increased the Haj quota by 5000 to 1,75,025. The Haj allowance was removed last year in the light of order by the Supreme Court.
