{"id":31991,"date":"2018-10-29T12:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31991"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:40:02","slug":"haj-subsidies-to-be-phased-out-naqvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/haj-subsidies-to-be-phased-out-naqvi\/","title":{"rendered":"Haj subsidies to be phased out: Naqvi\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/government-ends-haj-subsidy-from-this-year\/article22450240.ece\"><strong>Haj subsidies to be phased out: Naqvi<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday announced the Centre would phase out subsidies for the annual Haj pilgrimage, two months after his Ministry had taken the decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dignity without appeasement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is part of the Modi government\u2019s efforts to empower minorities with dignity and without appeasement<\/p>\n<p><strong>SC Order<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre\u2019s decision followed\u00a0a 2012 Supreme Court order\u00a0asking that subsidies for the Haj be phased out by 2022 and the money saved (around \u20b9450 crore annually) diverted to more welfare-oriented activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Education of the girl child<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The money saved from the Haj subsidy withdrawal would be used for the education of the girl child.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Haj Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new Haj policy, formulated by a committee headed by former bureaucrat Afzal Amanullah had also suggested that women Hajis be allowed to perform the pilgrimage without male escort, or mehram.<\/li>\n<li>In a first, a batch of over 1300 women will perform the annual pilgrimage of Haj from India without a mehram this year.<\/li>\n<li>Woman Haj assistants would accompany them and arrangements have been made<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haj subsidies to be phased out: Naqvi\u00a0 Context Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday announced the Centre would phase out subsidies for the annual Haj pilgrimage, two months after his Ministry had taken the decision. Dignity without appeasement It is part of the Modi government\u2019s efforts to empower minorities with dignity&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/haj-subsidies-to-be-phased-out-naqvi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Haj subsidies to be phased out: Naqvi\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704788400},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}