'One-day special' opportunity to fulfill Hajj quota

The 'one-day special' opportunity announced by the Ministry of Religion to fulfill the Hajj quota is going on today. And through this, the work of registration of Hajj pilgrims will be completed this year, according to the Ministry of Religion.

Earlier, according to a notification of the Ministry of Religion, the Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB)'s letter dated April 16 and the special request of the Hajj pilgrims, the registration server will be open for one day on April 25 for the registration of the Hajj pilgrims of both the government and private management.

Although the Hajj registration started for the first time on February 8 of this year, the Hajj quota of 1 lakh 27 thousand 197 people allocated for Bangladesh has not yet been fulfilled. Even though the government extended the registration period for eight times to fulfill the quota, the quota could not be fulfilled. In this situation, today is the last chance for more than four thousand pilgrims to fill the quota.

According to the Ministry of Religion, the Bangladesh government will have to inform the Saudi government by May 9 that how many people from Bangladesh will go to Saudi Arabia for Hajj this year. So, today is the last chance to register for Hajj to fill the quota.

One lakh 27 thousand and 198 people from Bangladesh can go for Hajj this year. Out of this, 15 thousand under government management and 1 lakh 12 thousand and 198 under private management can go for Hajj.

According to the latest calculations of the Ministry of Religion, 1 lakh 19 thousand and 695 people have registered so far. That is, there are still 7 thousand and 503 people left to register. However, almost half of this quota will be filled by government and private Hajj management team members. As such, the actual quota left for registration is slightly more than 4,000.