The third flight carrying 135 Haj pilgrims from Indore embarkation point of Madhya Pradesh took off on Friday. The Haj flights of the State that started from Indore on August 17 would continue till August 27.Total 11 Haj flights carrying 135 passengers each will take off from Indore.
Haj flights will start from Bhopal embarkation point of the state are scheduled from August 28 that continue till September 5.Every flight will carry 140 pilgrims. A total 9 flights have been scheduled from Bhopal for Haj-2016.Madhya Pradesh is among the select few sates of the country that have two embarkation points, the first is Raja Bhoj International Airport Bhopal and the second is Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport Indore.
Over three thousand Haj pilgrims from the State would fly to Mecca and Medina between August 17 and September 5 in twenty flights.
The flights from Indore would carry 135 pilgrims each while those from Bhopal would carry 140 pilgrims each. A total number of 1,485 Pilgrims are would fly to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia from Indore between August 17 and August 27 for the Haj pilgrimage. Thereafter, 1,260 devotees will fly from Bhopal between August 28 and September 5.
Around 150 pilgrims from the State will leave for Haj from Nagpur on August 25.Besides, an additional quota for 162 Haj pilgrims has been cleared by the State Government with that more than 3,000 devotees are scheduled to go on Haj pilgrimage this year.
The return journey for the pilgrims back to Indore is scheduled from 30th September and the last flight carrying Indore pilgrims would arrive on October 9 while the pilgrims from Bhopal will start returning from October 8 and the last flight carrying 140 pilgrims of the city would arrive on October 16.