Staff Reporter
Islamabad
The new Hajj policy would be announced in the last week of January and applications for securing berth for Hajj 2020 would be received from the first week of February, said an official of Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony here on Monday. Talking to media, he said this year Government Scheme Hajj package would likely to cross the half a million rupee per person.
The reasons of increase in Hajj expenses was appreciation in Riyal-Rupee parity ratio, increase in insurance premium, imposition of visa fee, Value Added Tax, (VAT), increase in Maktab fee, increase in rents of property at Makkah and Madina and airlines were also bracing to increase Hajj fair.
Sharing salient features of new Hajj policy, he said the quota of private and government scheme would be retained at 40:60 percent.
