Chennai: Haj pilgrims from India can rejoice. The quantity of water from the holy 'zamzam' well will not be reduced to five litres per pilgrim this year as suggested by the General Authority of Civil Aviation in Saudi Arabia, minister for state for external affairs E Ahamed said on Friday.
Ahamed, who met Saudi Arabia's Haj minister Bandar Hajjar early this week, said the Saudi authorities had agreed to give metro train tickets for stations 1 and 2 at Mecca to all Indian pilgrims coming through the Central Haj Committee. Each pilgrim will be given, for the first time, a 750g packet of dates on arrival in Mecca and Madina. Ahamed said he was in Mecca on Monday and that he was satisfied with the arrangements. The first group of Haj pilgrims from Tamil Nadu will fly to Madina on September 24.
07/09/13 Daniel P George/Times of India
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Ahamed, who met Saudi Arabia's Haj minister Bandar Hajjar early this week, said the Saudi authorities had agreed to give metro train tickets for stations 1 and 2 at Mecca to all Indian pilgrims coming through the Central Haj Committee. Each pilgrim will be given, for the first time, a 750g packet of dates on arrival in Mecca and Madina. Ahamed said he was in Mecca on Monday and that he was satisfied with the arrangements. The first group of Haj pilgrims from Tamil Nadu will fly to Madina on September 24.
07/09/13 Daniel P George/Times of India
