Almost four months after the center launched the UMEED-Centralized digital platform for recording, verifying and monitoring the WAQF properties in real-time-only about 4,000 properties have been registered compared to the total 8.72 Lakh WAQF devices extended across 30 states.
While the WAQF officials complained about the legal and technical issues on the portal from several countries, the Ministry of Minority’s official attributed the slow registration of the absence of “crazy records”, which made it impossible to fill in the required data before the six -month registration date in December.
In countries such as Uttarakhand, WAQF officials said that the portal at each stage of registration will evoke errors at each stage of registration – from the missing cities, areas or departments, after repeated failure to sign up to administrators. The lack of the “automatic saving” function also slowed progress and forced the user to restart the entire process every time they log in.
The Waqf official of Uttar Pradesh claimed that the system demanded old records of income that even officials of the Ministry of Income could not find, given that some of them are more than a century. UP has more than 2.3 lakh properties under Shia and Sunni waqfs boards – the highest in the ground.
An example, another official said that the UMEED portal was looking for a exploration date conducted almost 80 years ago at the cemetery in Lucknow. “WAQF was used, but today there is no way to add these details,” he said. Another WAQF official of UP said old revenue records are a combination of Persian and Arab language.
“Even if we can get documents rotting in government offices, there is no one to read them,” he said, adding that during the meeting of the joint parliamentary Committee (JPC) of the WAQF Change Act, all these problems were raised and the government was asked to register the deadline for at least two years.
Border details of an obstacle
Member of the Board of Directors of Waqf of Haryana emphasized another problem: providing accurate borders details. In many cases, the person only donates the share of land as WAQF, while other parts remain under various co -owners.
“If a person dedicated his share of property, which is in the middle of a larger land that co -owned others, how the boundaries can be clearly defined? But without this, the property cannot be registered,” the official added.
Acramulus Jabbar Khan, a former Indian revenue officer who now manages Alamgir Masjid, 46 hectares in the Pune area in the conhwa area, said that no one has seen that the portal that UPEED Portal did not do.
“The portal is built in a hurry without reflection and discussions with WAQF boards,” he said.
Reaction
In an interview with the Hindu Secretary, the Chandra Shekhar Kumar minority has said that the government leaves no stone to ensure full transparency and ease of recording data.
In response to the complaints, the clerk said that the reserved technical team is working on solving every problem raised within 24 hours. He added that most WAQF officials have already been resolved. He added that the Ministry carries out workshops with WAQF councils, state governments and other parties involved to find them with an altered act and a new portal.
The Secretary pointed out that the former Wamsi portal lacked proper verification mechanisms leading to missing addresses or features recorded with zero area. On the other hand, the UMEED portal is governed by the legal process of a three -stage manufacturer.
When asked that if several properties were marked as zero area, the official stated that once the records were verified, the final WAQF Landholding would be less, but the scope of deficiency cannot be estimated with such limited registrations.
WAQF Holdings scale
It is said that WAQF Holdings, currently estimated at 38-39 acres, represents almost 5% of the country’s total area – more than combined land of the Ministry of Defense and Indian railways.
It responds to the remark of the Ministry about the real estate marked with zero area and the WAQF official presented that there is a “unnecessary hype” aimed at displaying Muslims as the largest landowners.
Published – 29 September 2025 22:12
