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September 30, 2010, 8:48am
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Re: Columnist Hasan Nisar Sahaab
First, let us analyze what exactly this so-called Haj subsidy entails. An Indian Muslim, who chooses to go to Haj through government run Haj committees, gets a subsidy of around Rs. 20,000 on their Air India ticket of Rs. 32,000. That is it ! The minimum cost of a Haj package through the Haj committees is around Rs. 92,000, of which Rs. 20,000 is paid by the Indian government to Air India as a subsidy on the Hajis ticket. The total Haj airline ticket subsidy was around Rs. 150 crore for the year 2001 and has been enmarked to Rs. 225 crores for the year 2005 . It is interesting to note that the normal ticket to Saudi Arabia costs around Rs. 25,000 but Air India charges Rs. 34,000 from the Hajis. So, effectively the government is giving a subsidy of Rs. 12,000 only !
Oke so grievance is that not enough is being given but fact is something is being given in a hindu majority secular country. Which doesn’t give a dime to Kailash Yatris or Amarnath yatris.. IN fact in case of Amarnath the state govt J/K starts crying wolf if something is tried to alleviate their difficulty..
**Why doesn’t govt give subsidy to those Hindus who want to go to Ankorwat Temple visit in Combodia.. **
Pakistan OTOH charges much more from their HAj pilgrims no subsidiyt whatsoever.
Rest is mallicious nonsense in that article
o.k. dear ,the gentleman DD. ONE EYED smiley wants to say why india a kaffir country is giving subsidy to haji’s , because india wants to insult pakistan, so pakistan should pay remaining subsidy and pakistan should give all minorities full subsidy to hindu ,sikh, christian, zorostrians ,last but not the least zews for pilgrimage