RIYADH: Zam Zam office targeted that they would supply 34 Millions (380 lakhs) liters of Zam Zam water to pilgrims on the current hajj season.

Zam Zam office chairman Suleiman Abu Gelya said that more than 1,100 staffers, including some temporary workers, will distribute Zamzam water to pilgrims residing in various districts of Makkah.

He also said, “Minister of Haj Bandar Hajjar has approved the office’s operation plan for the distribution of Zamzam water.”

The Zamzam water bottles are being prepared at the office’s automated bottling center in Rusaifa, he added.

The first phase of distribution started on Sept. 7 with plastic bottles, each containing 330 ml of cooled Zamzam water, being distributed to pilgrims on their arrival in Jeddah and Madinah.

In the second phase, 20-liter thermos bottles were being delivered to the residences of pilgrims.

In the third phase, each pilgrim will be supplied with another 330 ml bottle at their residences immediately after their arrival from Mina after they complete their Haj rituals.

When contacted, Jeddah Consulate’s consul (Hajj) Asaduzzaman told every Hajji can take 10 liters Zam Zam water to home and it would be supplied by Zam Zam office.

Airlines will not accept the water which was collected personally, he relied to a query.

This year 1,589 pilgrims will perform Hajj in government management and 87,590 pilgrims under private management.

BDST: 1124 HRS, SEP 21, 2013
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