The Regional Passport Officer, Hyderabad has accepted proposals of the Telangana State Haj Committee for providing relief to the Haj Applicants in the matter of their International Passports.
SHC officer Prof S A Shukoor met RPO Ashwini Sattaru on Wednesday and discussed with her the mandatory conditions of the Haj Committee of India and Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as regards to the Haj Application Forms. He said that the Ministry has laid out a condition that the hand written passports issued earlier will not acepted for Haj Visa Endorsement. He said that all the Haj pilgrims should possess the Machine Readable Passports. The RPO readily agreed to replace the existing passports with the Machine Readable Passports.
On the proposal of issuing Passports to the candidates whose Police Inquiry Reports were received, she said that the Passports to such candidates would be issued immediately, subject to the submission of list of the applicants by the State Haj Committee. Prof Shukoor further proposed to renew the Passports to such candidates whose Passports are going to expire before 20-03-2016, as the selected haj Pilgrims should have to possess the passports with validity till 20-03-2016. Accordingly, it was agreed to renew the Passports as per norms.
In all the three cases the candidates should approach the State Haj Committee office in person only basing on their representation the State Haj Committee would send the list of the candidates to the RPO. Middlemen will not be entertained. The intending Haj pilgrims who desire to avail of the facility may contact in person to the Haj Committee office or contact 040- 2329 8793 for details. Deputy Regional Passport Officer Madan Mohan and SHC AEO Irfan Shareef were also present on this occasion. (INN)