Haj Subsidy

First flight carrying 285 Haj pilgrims departs from India to Saudi Arabia

A flight departed on Thursday morning from IGI airport to Saudi Arabia carrying a total of 285 Haj pilgrims. A total of 1,75,025 Indian pilgrims will visit Saudi Arabia under the Haj quota

Welcome excision: After Haj, govt must cut subsidies to other events

Scrapping the Haj subsidy alone will do nothing to enhance India's global reputation for multiculturalism

Haj subsidy cancelled: Why Modi govt should stop spending on all religions

Both Central and state governments continue to spend large sums on other pilgrimages and festivals

Haj subsidy withdrawal evokes mixed response from Muslim leaders, clerics

There should be an open process of tenders for air tickets: Muslim leaders

Govt ends Haj subsidy; Cong wants Modi to use funds for minority upliftment

Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said it was in line with the BJP government's agenda to empower minorities without appeasing them

Centre cancels Haj subsidy: Who was it really for, anyway?

Both Central and state governments continue to spend thousands of crores on various Hindu festivals and pilgrimages

Centre scraps Haj subsidy, says funds will be used for community's welfare

SC asked govt to phase out the subsidy by 2022, but the govt is doing away with it in 2018 as a symbol of its "empowerment without appeasement" commitment

Haj subsidy: Muslims cheated to recover Air India losses, says AIMPLB

'"In normal days, tickets for Saudi Arabia come for Rs 32,000 but during Haj, Air India used to charge Rs 65,000 to Rs 1 lakh from those going for Haj'

No more Haj subsidy, decision taken to empower minorities, says Naqvi

Earlier this year, Naqvi had said that the govt would abolish the subsidy for Haj pilgrims in accordance with SC order