Okaz/Saudi Gazette MADINA ? Field committees have started filing reports on Umrah pilgrims? accommodation, including the time between their arrival and their moving into hotels and housing complexes in Makkah, Madina and Jeddah, Okaz/Saudi Gazette has learned. The efforts are part of the Ministry of Haj?s strict implementation of its measures to ensure the visitors are not left waiting outside the places of their stay; it warned that it would impose penalties on Umrah companies that do not comply. The Ministry of Haj?s field measures to reduce waiting period for visitors and Umrah pilgrims in the three cities include scheduling the arrival of buses to the visitors? residences, providing "Representatives of monitoring and supervision committees are working to ensure implementation of the measures on the ground, in coordination with Umrah companies." workers to carry luggage to the hotels and complexes on arrival and rapidly providing guests with accommodation. Representatives of monitoring and supervision committees are working to ensure implementation of the measures on the ground, in coordination with Umrah companies. The representatives also note the Umrah pilgrims? arrival times, provide them with accommodation, register violations and submit reports to the Agency for Umrah Pilgrim Affairs in the Ministry of Haj. The ministry also emphasized to all Umrah companies that pilgrims? accommodation should be kept ready and clean. The ministry has stressed that it will not allow scenes of pilgrims waiting in front of hotels or squatting on the sidewalks near their places of accommodation while they wait for completion of procedures or for buses to take them between Makkah and Madina or to the airport. The ministry sent a cable to its branches in the two holy cities in which it emphasized the need to authorize monitoring and supervision teams to provide accommodation to the Umrah pilgrims immediately on arrival in Makkah, Madina or Jeddah, Okaz/Saudi Gazette has learned. It said the time for providing accommodation to Umrah pilgrims should be matched to their arrival by air and it should be entered in the computer programs of Umrah companies, which are linked with the computer system of the Agency for Umrah Pilgrim Services. __
