MRP, online registration must for 2015 hajj
The cabinet today okayed the next year’s hajj package making Machine Readable Passport (MRP) and online registration compulsory for the pilgrims.
The Hajj Package-2015 was approved with Tk 3.55 lakh as the highest expense for a pilgrim.
Like this year, 101,758 pilgrims will be able to go Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj next year, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hussain Bhuiyan told reporters after the meeting at the secretariat in the capital.
Of them, 10,000 will go under government management and the rest by private means. The cost of two packages under government management would be Tk 3.54 lakh and Tk 2.96 lakh respectively.
The pilgrims can register their names from tomorrow to January 21 through online at the cost of Tk 1.92 lakh, he said.
The first flight for the hajj pilgrims will leave Dhaka on September 22 next year.
The numbers of pilgrims were 127,198 during the hajj in 2013.
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