{"id":19011,"date":"2018-01-17T12:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=19011"},"modified":"2018-01-17T12:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:22:48","slug":"haj-subsidy-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/haj-subsidy-scrapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Haj subsidy scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<br \/>\nThe BJP-led government has done away with Haj subsidy for pilgrims from this year as part of its policy to \u201cempower minorities with dignity and without appeasement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today said Haj subsidy funds would be utilised for educational empowerment of the minority community, especially girls. \u201cThis is part of our policy to empower minorities with dignity and without appeasement,\u201d he explained. Despite the withdrawal of subsidy, a record 1.75 lakh pilgrims, \u201cthe highest ever since Independence,\u201d would undertake the annual pilgrimage to Mecca this year, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi The BJP-led government has done away with Haj subsidy for pilgrims from this year as part of its policy to \u201cempower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19013,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19011\/revisions\/19013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}