The Indian Haj Mission in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia deserves our best wishes and praise for this year's Haj following the introduction of WhatsApp service, SMS alert system, Adahi coupons and a toll free number. The Indian Haj Mission this year has upgraded the high tech services to facilitate a smooth and hassle-free Haj operation for Indian pilgrims. It is one of the first and foremost of the missions to use technology to its advantage while providing services that ease the Haj of the arriving pilgrims. Allah Almighty has indeed bestowed on the Indian Haj Mission a mammoth task for serving His guests. It is truly amazing to manage 136,020 pilgrims every year, for housing them, for feeding them and for meeting their every need. Doing this year after year, with upgraded services annually must be a herculean task. The Indian Haj Mission are doing an excellent job, addressing new challenges that come up every year. And it is their proactive measures that are proving beneficial to the pilgrims. Last year the Indian Haj Mission introduced new innovative measures, like Global Positioning System (GPS) application called “Indian Haj Accommodation Locator” the first foreign mission in Saudi Arabia to come up with this technology. And also for the first time Indian pilgrims were served food at their lodgings in Madinah. In addition to Mobily SIM cards, train and bus tickets for transportation in Makkah and Madinah were also distributed among the pilgrims from their embarkation points in India,” Our highest appreciation goes to External Minister of India Sushma Swaraj, Consul General of India B.S. Mubarak, Deputy Consul General and Consul (Haj) Mohammed Noor Rahman Sheikh, chairperson of the Indian Haj Committee, States Haj Committees and Consulate General of India staff for working and preparing to make this year's Haj a huge success. Let Allah give them the strength to keep on doing good work. Mir Gazanfar Ali Zaki, Jeddah
