First Flight Of Hajj Pilgrims From J&Okay To Go away For Saudi Arabia At this time | India Information

The primary batch of this 12 months’s Hajj pilgrims left the Hajj home on Sunday for the Srinagar worldwide airport to board the particular flight for Saudi Arabia. 

This 12 months, over 3600 pilgrims will depart Jammu and Kashmir to carry out the holiest Muslim pilgrimage of Hajj.

The primary batch of 178 pilgrims, comprising 96 males and 82 girls, reached the Hajj Home within the Bemina space of Srinagar metropolis within the morning.

The pilgrims had been requested to succeed in the Hajj Home between 5 a.m. to five.30 a.m. for last preparations and departure to the airport.

Authorities have saved particular buses to hold the pilgrims to the airport, however no relative or buddy of the pilgrims can be allowed to accompany them to the airport.

Shujaat Ahmad Qureshi, chief govt officer of the J&Okay Hajj committee, mentioned the primary flight carrying pilgrims will depart from the Srinagar Worldwide Airport later within the day.

Senior officers, together with the divisional commissioner (Kashmir), V.Okay. Bidhuri, visited the Hajj Home on Saturday to take inventory of the ultimate preparations being made for the pilgrims.

All of the Hajj pilgrims from the union territory, together with these from the Jammu division, must report on the Hajj Home in Srinagar for his or her onward journey to Saudi Arabia.

Emotional scenes had been witnessed on the Hajj Home as households bade farewell to their members leaving on the pilgrimage.

It was a mixture of pleasure and sorrow as family members expressed pleasure for his or her relations leaving to carry out the pilgrimage and a few unhappiness for the separation, because the two-way journey takes over a month on common.

In distinction to the final a few years throughout which heaps had been drawn to fill the seats, for the final three years, the variety of candidates for the pilgrimage has been lower than the allotted seats.

This has made enterprise the journey simple for individuals who can afford it.