There is a great news for going from India this year to perform Hajj. This is because the Minority Affairs Ministry has said that 20 percent of the passengers will be confirmed from those who registered the Hajj privately. As a result, about 5 percent of people are expected to go to Hajj this time.
Various Indian media, including Hindustan Times and India.com, said that this time more than 12,000 Indian private tour operators have booked for Hajj. Recently, the Minority Affairs Ministry of India issued a new notice. Where it has been said, only 20 percent of the private quota booked earlier will be confirmed first. This means that 5 percent of the people registered under the Combined Haj Group Organizers (CHGO) will probably not be able to perform Hajj in 2021.
The decision has been made only after the Access was stopped at the Nusuk Portal in the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah in Saudi Arabia. Nusuk is a compulsory online platform, which is used to finalize contracts and services for Hajj pilgrims. Saudi authorities have canceled the Mina Zone – 1 and 2. These zones were allotted to CHGOs. The reason is that the payment of the payment and the final service agreement is not finalized. The rest of the zones (1,5 and 6) have also been detained. As a result, the situation has worsened.
The minority ministry has blamed private tour operators for the error. The ministry has said that the service system was supposed to be finalized on the Nusuk portal on each CHGO's own initiative. But most of them failed to upload or pay the contract on time. As a result, Saudi authorities have canceled the access and suspended all the zones scheduled for Indian private pilgrims.
A private tour operator, who did not want to be named, said the error was by the government. According to the operator, Saudi authorities have changed the payment process since last year. Now private operators have to make payment through the government. The government then transferred the money to the Saudi authorities.
The operator added that most of the private operators had submitted their money to the government on time. However, some may have been late. He also mentioned that before 2021, private operators could pay directly to the Saudi authorities from their own account.
The operator, who did not want to be named, said, “The government has waited for all operators to receive money and delayed the payment. As a result, the payment channel of the Saudi authorities has shut down. Those who completed the payment because of the negligence of the government are now in trouble. '
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has agreed to re -open the Nusuk Portal. The minority ministry has taken the matter to the highest level of the Hajj and Umrah Ministry of Saudi Arabia. As a result, the Saudi party has temporarily agreed to open the Nusuk portal. However it will only be open for a short and indefinite period. Within this short time, CHGOs will be able to upload service agreements for their pilgrims and finalize housing, transport and logistic measures.
However, the notice warns that the allotted real-time will be done on the basis of the allotted zones and camps in Mina. It is not yet clear how many tents or zones can be found, or they will be located in a particular area.
