Following representation by the State Haj Committee, the Regional Passport Office has agreed to issue one hundred more passports to prospective Haj pilgrims, to facilitate them submit their Haj applications.
Consequenty upon the Passport Adalat held on 4th April in the RPO, the Haj Committee has collected as many as 921 affidavits from the applicants whose Police Verification Reports were not received. Of them, police verification reports for 100 cases were received and passports for these candidates would be issued on April 19th in the Passport Office.
SHC chairman Syed Khaleeluddin Ahmed and other officials and SHC members met RPO Dr Srikar Reddy and finalised the programme of distribution of the passports to the concerned. The international passports to the 100 candidates will be distributed to the persons concerned at 3 pm on 19th April (Thursday). The Haj Committee will inform all the concerned over telephone and give them their token numbers.
For the remaining 821 candidates, the passport for one year validity to travel to Saudi Arabia only will be issued on April 23 (Monday) at 10.30 am in the Passport office. The candidates who had submitted affidavit in the Haj Committee should only approach the Passport Office on that day after obtaining token number from the Haj Committee.
–Agencies