Assam: Last date for depositing 2nd installment for Haj pilgrims is December 16

JSHC for Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, etc., has asked all provisionally selected Haj pilgrims for 2025 to deposit their 2nd installments of Rs 1,42,000 each on or before Dec 16, 2024
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GUWAHATI: The Joint State Haj Committee for Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, etc., has asked all provisionally selected Haj pilgrims for 2025 to deposit their second installments of Rs 1,42,000 each on or before December 16, 2024, through the e-payment facility available on hajcommittee.gov.in or the Haj Suvidha App using credit card/debit card/net banking/UPI or specified pay-in-slip in any branch of SBI or UBI in the account of the Haj Committee of India.

The first installment of Rs 1,30,300 of the advance Haj amount has been deposited by the provisionally selected pilgrims for Haj 2025, an official said, adding that the third installment of the remaining amount will be decided by taking into consideration the finalisation of the airfare amount and Saudi expenses in Saudi Arabia, and the same will be intimated in due course.

A total of 2,779 pilgrims have applied to participate in the holy pilgrimage of Haj 2025. This was revealed by an official of the Joint State Haj Committee for Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, etc.

Of the total 2,779 applicants desiring to go for the Haj 2025 pilgrimage, 1,927 are males and 852 are females. Pilgrims will leave for Haj 2025 from five points of embarkation. While 1725 will leave from Guwahati, two will leave from Hyderabad, 819 from Kolkata, 221 from Mumbai, and 12 from Delhi. The pilgrims will leave for Haj 2025 from the month of May 2025 onwards.

The number of provisionally selected pilgrims from different districts in the state is as follows: Bajali 5, Baksa 3, Barpeta 127, Biswanath 2, Bongaigaon 29, Cachar 422, Charaideo 8, Chirang 13, Darrang 161, Dhemaji 3, Dhubri 108, Dibrugarh 31, Goalpara 117, Golaghat 21, Hailakandi 312, Hojai 89, Jorhat 38, Kamrup 96, Kamrup (M) 148, Shribhumi 464, Kokrajhar 19, Lakhimpur 75, Morigaon 66, Nagaon 165, Nalbari 28, Sivasagar 69, Sonitpur 28, South Salmara-Mankachar 49, Tamulpur 4, Tinsukia 23, Udalguri 14.

Besides those from Assam, a number of Haj pilgrims will also participate from other states of the NE region affiliated to the Haj board. Pilgrims from Meghalaya number 26, Nagaland 13, and Mizoram 1.

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