{"id":39676,"date":"2018-01-29T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=39676"},"modified":"2018-01-29T13:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:58:36","slug":"end-haj-subsidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/end-haj-subsidy\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Haj subsidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: From which of the following year the ending of Haj subsidy was ordered by the Supreme Court through a decision passed in 2012?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 2019<br \/>\n(b) 2020<br \/>\n(c) 2021<br \/>\n(d) 2022<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (d)<br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On January 16th, 2018, the Union Minority Welfare Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi announced the end of the subsidy on annual Haj pilgrimage from the current year (2018).<\/li>\n<li>It is known that in the year 2012, Supreme Court passed an order directing to end Haj subsidy by 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Supreme Court in its order cleared that subsidy is not only unconstitutional but also not in conformity with the teachings of the Quran.<\/li>\n<li>With the end of the Haj subsidy, around Rs. 450 crore per year will be saved.<\/li>\n<li>This amount will be spent on the education of minority women and girls.<\/li>\n<li>It is worth mentioning that this year; a record 1.75 lakh Muslims will visit Haj pilgrimage, which will be the largest Indian batch after Independence.<\/li>\n<li>For the first time this year, women will also go on Haj pilgrimage without male maintenance or Mehram.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/government-ends-haj-subsidy-from-this-year\/article22450240.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/government-ends-haj-subsidy-from-this-year\/article22450240.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Politics\/u3KC2eKjfnZUcjOdwjQfSO\/Government-ends-Haj-subsidy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Politics\/u3KC2eKjfnZUcjOdwjQfSO\/Government-ends-Haj-subsidy.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/government-ends-subsidy-for-haj-pilgrims\/articleshow\/62523061.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/government-ends-subsidy-for-haj-pilgrims\/articleshow\/62523061.cms<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/india-news\/narendra-modi-government-ends-haj-subsidy-for-muslims-says-wont-affect-cost-of-travel-to-mecca\/1017463\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/india-news\/narendra-modi-government-ends-haj-subsidy-for-muslims-says-wont-affect-cost-of-travel-to-mecca\/1017463\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/khabar.ndtv.com\/news\/faith\/haj-subsidy-haj-yatra-haj-quota-1801054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/khabar.ndtv.com\/news\/faith\/haj-subsidy-haj-yatra-haj-quota-1801054<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/navbharattimes.indiatimes.com\/india\/government-ends-subsidy-for-haj-pilgrims\/articleshow\/62523574.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/navbharattimes.indiatimes.com\/india\/government-ends-subsidy-for-haj-pilgrims\/articleshow\/62523574.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: From which of the following year the ending of Haj subsidy was ordered by the Supreme Court through a decision passed in 2012? (a) 2019 (b) 2020 (c) 2021 (d) 2022 Answer: (d) Related Facts: On January 16th, 2018, the Union Minority Welfare Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi announced the end of the subsidy on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":39214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}