With the deadline of the UMEED waqf portal soon coming to a close, data indicates that a percentage of the total registrations of waqf institutions in Telangana are unregistered waqf properties, and a majority of institutions registered on the portal are yet to be cleared by higher authorities.
According to official data the State has about 33,900 registered waqf institutions and till December 4, the total number of registrations on the UMEED portal stood at 36,056.
“Unregistered waqf properties are being registered on the portal as well. Of course, a large number of notified properties too have been registered,” Telangana State Waqf Board Chairman Syed Azmatuallah Husseini told The Hindu. “The number of properties registered had crossed 36,000 yesterday. We have crossed that number today [December 5] and over 40,000 have been registered so far.”
Mr Husseini clarified that the last date for registration and document uploading is December 6, a communication from the Centre was received in this regard, he said.
A procedural step after registration and uploading documents by ‘makers’, who are usually mutawallis or managing committee members of waqf institutions, is for ‘checkers’ to confirm compliance. Subsequently, an approver has to give the final go-ahead. The number, according to Mr Husseini had increased on December 5.
