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Hajj policy okayed Tk 3.60 lakh to cost for each pilgrim this yr

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 12 January 2016

Staff Reporter :
Pilgrims who want to perform hajj this year will have to pay Tk 360,028 each under government management while last year they had to spend Tk 354,745 each.The Cabinet on Monday fixed the amounts in its regular weekly meeting held at the Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam briefed reporters after the meeting.
He said the amounts were fixed while approving the draft of the National Hajj and Umrah Policy 2016, and Hajj Package 2016.
According to the draft policy and hajj package, a total of 113,868 devotees will be able to go to Saudi Arabia to perform hajj this year, the Cabinet Secretary said.
Of them, 5,000 hajj pilgrims will go under government management, while 108,868 under private management.
Alam said there will be two packages under the government management in which Tk 360,028 has been fixed under package-1 as hajj fee, including Qurbani. In package-2, Tk 304,903 has been fixed as hajj fee, excluding Qurbani fee.
Besides, he said, Tk 155,441.68 has been fixed this year as basic expenditure for the private management category against Tk 148,331 in 2015.
Alam said the Cabinet discussed issues of some irregularities on luggage handling during last hajj by the airlines concerned and asked relevant authorities to strictly look into the issue to check any mishandling in the future.
The cabinet also approved a proposal to relax conditions of quota to fill 672 vacant reserved posts in technical and professional cadres in the 34th BCS and 1,803 vacant posts in the 35th BCS examinations.