If they miss the deadline, thousands of properties, some of them centuries old, may slip into a digital void.
That fear hangs heavy outside a central masjid in Hyderabad, where small groups of men wait in silence, files pressed close to their chests. Some hold rolled gazette notifications and title deeds while others carry electricity bills, tax receipts or fragile photocopies salvaged from ageing registers. Every scrap of paper matters. A few hundred metres from the masjid, across a busy road, another queue mirrors the first. On a designated floor inside a government office, young men with sunken eyes and parched lips — evident effects of fasting — type relentlessly into laptops. Every document that can establish a property as waqf must be uploaded to the UMEED Waqf portal before time runs out.
