Srinagar, Jan. 16 -- A year after the ban on women going to Haj without Mehram was lifted by the central government, the Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday said that for the first time after the Independence, more than 2300 Muslim women from India will go on Haj 2019 without Mehram (male companion).

While inaugurating new office space of Haj Division, Minority Affairs Ministry, at RK Puram in New Delhi, Naqvi as per a statement issued to KNS said that 2340 Muslim women from various states of the country have applied to go on Haj 2019 without Mehram.

On the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this year too, the Minority Affairs Ministry has made arrangement to send these women on Haj without lot...