Birsa Munda airport amenities for Haj pilgrims

Ranchi: Haj pilgrims from Jharkhand can look forward to a hassle-free journey and special treatment at Birsa Munda Airport this year.
They will not have to queue up with other passengers to go through boarding formalities at the terminal building as the airport authorities will set up a special makeshift structure that will have the same facilities that are available at the terminal building. Besides, a special transit flight will be introduced to take the pilgrims to Calcutta from where they travel to Medina and Jeddah.
The makeshift structure will be made of tent and will serve as a terminal building-cum-rest house for well over two months. It will have immigration counter, foreign exchange facilities, customs counter, luggage check counter and boarding pass kiosk. There will be special areas like waju (place for washing), ehram (place for changing clothes) and place for namaz. “We will meet all needs of the Haj pilgrims at the airport, including their religious requirements,” said Raju Raghavendra Kumar, the air traffic controller at Birsa Munda Airport.
He added that as the airport had so far been dealing only with domestic passengers and Haj pilgrims were international passengers, they would be treated as special.
As many as 2,700 pilgrims from Jharkhand are scheduled to go to Medina and Jeddah.
01/10/09 Santosh K Kiro/The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Oct 2009