New Delhi: The Supreme Court might have finally given a roadmap to do away with Haj subsidy but a move was afoot in the government 15 years ago to gradually withdraw the contentious assistance which did not take off.
A Cabinet note was prepared by Civil Aviation Secretary MK Kaw in 1997 when IK Gujral was Prime Minister who took a "strange route" of not convening a Cabinet meeting but a meeting of all parties.
Kaw has written about the issue in his book "An Outsider Everywhere: Revelations by an Insider", which will be released tomorrow.
"When I studied the case, I found that the (Haj) subsidy was initially meant for very poor pilgrims and the numbers were small. As the years passed, the number of pilgrims and the quantum of subsidy increased by leaps and bounds," he said.
09/05/12 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
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