This Al Jazeera article reports that India's Minister for Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, announced on 16 January 2018 the end of a Hajj pilgrimage subsidy that had run since 1954, delivered as concessionary airline fares and worth about 100 million dollars in 2013 and 75 million dollars by 2016, four years ahead of a 2012 Supreme Court order to phase it out entirely by 2022, with the freed funds redirected toward the educational empowerment of girls and women from minority communities.
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PublisherAl Jazeera
Publication Year2018
URLhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/1/16/india-ends-government-subsidies-for-hajj-pilgrimage
Source Typenews
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
A major international news agency reporting a government minister's own announcement and the underlying 2012 Supreme Court order, a checkable policy event rather than a contested interpretation, hence the middle tier. Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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