JEDDAH: More than 30,000 low-income citizens and expatriates will benefit this year from a “low-cost pilgrimage” program, said the Ibrahim Jabri, director of the department for domestic pilgrims at the Haj Ministry. “The ministry will provide a number of incentives to companies providing the reduced-cost services to domestic pilgrims, whether citizens or foreigners, if the companies do not ask more than the prices decided by the ministry,” he told Arab News in a statement.
Al-Jabri said Haj companies which have no recorded violations for three consecutive years will be rewarded by various privileges, including allocating them more pilgrims and pieces of land in the Holy Sites, and allowing them to hire about 90 percent of their buses from outside. According to the program, the pilgrimage will cost between SR1900 and SR3900.
