Hyderabad May 17: (Siasat News) A. P. State Hajj Committee has received 17,807 applications so far. Hajj performers application through the Hajj Committee are considerably lesser than those of the last year. Yesteryear 23,827 applications were received thus making the current year short of 6026 applications. Hajj Committee sources have said, the shortage of Hajj applications are due to the International Passport compulsion.
According to Hajj committee’s resources, 155 Hajj aspirants have been selected without lottery, as they had been submitting their Hajj applications for 3 years, at a stretch.
The selection of the other Hajj aspirants will be conducted through the lottery, which is scheduled on may 24 as per Hajj committee resources application has filled in the international passports quaries and the 20 percent other applicants have inclosed the copies of their applications submitted for the international passport. Hajj Committee has not yet decided to set up a passport counter at the Hajj House. The decision their connection will be taken of the may 24.
——-Siasat News