{"id":59529,"date":"2019-04-20T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T11:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=59529"},"modified":"2019-04-20T11:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T11:41:37","slug":"saudi-arabia-increases-indias-haj-quota-to-2-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/saudi-arabia-increases-indias-haj-quota-to-2-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia increases India&#8217;s Haj Quota to 2 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saudi Arabia  has issued a formal order increasing the Haj quota of India to two lakhs  from one lakh seventy five-thousand.Official sources said, the decision  will ensure that all the Haj applicants from big states like Uttar  Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar can embark pilgrimage  this year as their waiting lists have been cleared due to the increase  in quota. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February this year, the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed\n bin Salman at a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced\n that Indian Haj quota would be increased by 25 thousand to two lakhs. \nThis is the third hike in three consecutive years. Sources said, a \nrecord number of two lakh Indian Muslims will perform Haj this year \nwithout subsidy. As many as 2,340 Indian Muslim women will go for the \npilgrimage without male companion or Mehram.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has issued a formal order increasing the Haj quota of India to two lakhs from one lakh seventy five-thousand.Official sources said, the decision will ensure that all the Haj applicants from big states like Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar can embark pilgrimage this year as their waiting lists have been [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529","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=59529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59531,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529\/revisions\/59531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}