Hyderabad, March 15 -- The Telangana State Haj Committee is faced with an unprecedented challenge this year. It has to handle astaggering 11000 pilgrimage for Haj 2024, an unusually large number. It is for the first time that the Haj Committee will be taking care of such a large number of Hajis and ensuring their safe travel to Saudi Arabia.

This piquant situation has arisen as a good number of pilgrims from neighboring Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra have chosen to depart from the Hyderabad embarkation point.While pilgrims from Telangana are 7790, those from the adjacent States have swelled the number to 11016. This number is bound to stretch limits of preparations.

The newly elected Haj Committee chairman,Syed Gulam Afzal Bi...