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Expedite passports for Haj pilgrims, UP urges centre
Wednesday April 11, 2012 01:21:50 PM, IANS
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Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh has asked the central government to expedite the process
of issuing passports to Muslims seeking to go for Haj pilgrimage
to Makkah.
In a letter written to union External Affairs Minister S.M.
Krishna, state minister Mohammad Azam Khan said his ministry
should direct the regional passport offices in Uttar Pradesh to
ensure timely issuance of passports to Haj pilgrims.
Khan pointed out that thousands of Muslims living in the state's
countryside go on Haj every year and have to go through a tedious
and long process to get the Haj passport.
The minister also
complained that a number of applications for passports were
pending in the passport offices in Lucknow, Ghaziabad and Bareilly.
The minister also mooted a 'tatkal passport' scheme for such Haj
pilgrims so as to ensure that even last minute additions and poor
people were able to undertake the pilgrimage.
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