Chhattisgarh Government has provided a free Android based App facility to Haj pilgrims of the State so that they may keep contact and find location of each other during their journey.
According to State Haj Committee President Salim Raj, this Haj App would be operated on Android mobile phone. On the special initiative of Chief Minister Raman Singh, the Government has developed this mobile application for the Chhattisgarh State Haj Committee. It has been given free of cost to the Haj pilgrims, he added.
The State Government has also been providing mobile phone hand sets to the Haj pilgrims, which they would return to the Haj Committee on returning from the pilgrimage, so that it would be used by pilgrims in the succeeding years.
The State Haj Committee had organised a training programme for the pilgrims at the New Circuit House here on Sunday, in which they have been given information about the method of using this mobile application.
Raj said that, for the first time in the country and the world, Chhattisgarh Government has provided this IT based tool for the Haj pilgrims of the State. At the concluding session of the training programme, Salim Raj said that this year 332 pilgrims from Chhattisgarh would go for Haj.
Chhattisgarh State Haj Committee Secretary Sajid Meman, trainers Salim Ashraf and Sajid Amjad and large number of Haj pilgrims were present on the occasion.