Tuesday, October 20, 2009
First Batch of Hajis Leave for Mecca
About 1.64 lakh Indians would be undertaking Haj this year out of which 1.15 lakh would be going through the Haj Committee of India and rest through private operators during the one-month period. Flagging off the first batch of 200 pilgrims at the airport here, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said computers have been set up at various locations to enable them to keep in touch with their relatives in the country.
The government has sanctioned more than 350 crores Hajj subsidy for Indian pilgrims, who will be transported to holy cities of Makkah and Medina in 170 flights from tomorrow. The union cabinet today gave its approval to Air India, Saudi Airlines, and National Air Service of Saudi Arabia to carry the pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage. Each pilgrims will get subsidy of about Rs 30,000 for air travel, while he himself bears expenses of stay, transport and other charges during his stay in the kingdom. The pilgrims are required to pay Rs 16,000 this time as against Rs 12,000 last year.
IMO: Of course people each have their own view about the Haj but, generally speaking, it is good to see India trying to cater for the moral and spiritual views of its minorities. You can't see the UK doing this. Instead people in the UK are being encouraged to drink themselves to death with cheap booze and to betray any underlying moral principles which they may still have. Often enough this is by public fornication on the streets outside public houses. Also in the UK people are encouraged to gorge their fat guts with needlessly slaughtered innocent cows and sheep. Something like 400 possibly habitable planets seem already to be known to astronomy. What will some of the inhabitants of these think, if of similar origins to cows and sheep, if they see their innocent relatives being killed and eaten. Irrespective of the recent Goa murders which of course are unacceptable, Hindu institutions like Sri Ram Sena are at least doing what they can. Om Ganesh.
The government has sanctioned more than 350 crores Hajj subsidy for Indian pilgrims, who will be transported to holy cities of Makkah and Medina in 170 flights from tomorrow. The union cabinet today gave its approval to Air India, Saudi Airlines, and National Air Service of Saudi Arabia to carry the pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage. Each pilgrims will get subsidy of about Rs 30,000 for air travel, while he himself bears expenses of stay, transport and other charges during his stay in the kingdom. The pilgrims are required to pay Rs 16,000 this time as against Rs 12,000 last year.
IMO: Of course people each have their own view about the Haj but, generally speaking, it is good to see India trying to cater for the moral and spiritual views of its minorities. You can't see the UK doing this. Instead people in the UK are being encouraged to drink themselves to death with cheap booze and to betray any underlying moral principles which they may still have. Often enough this is by public fornication on the streets outside public houses. Also in the UK people are encouraged to gorge their fat guts with needlessly slaughtered innocent cows and sheep. Something like 400 possibly habitable planets seem already to be known to astronomy. What will some of the inhabitants of these think, if of similar origins to cows and sheep, if they see their innocent relatives being killed and eaten. Irrespective of the recent Goa murders which of course are unacceptable, Hindu institutions like Sri Ram Sena are at least doing what they can. Om Ganesh.
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