Centre To Launch ‘UMEED’ Portal On June 6 To Streamline Waqf Properties Registration
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The Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2025, acquired presidential assent from President Droupadi Murmu on April 5 after it was handed in each Homes of Parliament following intense debate
The brand new regulation amended the Waqf Act, 1995, to handle the regulation of Waqf properties, that’s, non secular endowments or properties devoted completely for non secular or charitable functions underneath Islamic regulation. (Picture: PTI file)
The central authorities is ready to advance the Waqf Act by launching the UMEED portal (Unified Waqf Administration, Empowerment, Effectivity, and Growth) on June 6. The portal goals to facilitate the registration of Waqf properties, which have to be accomplished inside six months.
Properties within the title of girls can’t be declared as Waqf, and the beneficiaries of Waqf properties ought to primarily be girls, kids, and the poor. Detailed property descriptions, together with dimensions and geo-tagged areas, are required for registration.
The State Waqf Board will oversee the registration course of. Properties not registered inside the stipulated timeframe can be thought-about disputed and referred to a tribunal.
The Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2025, acquired presidential assent from President Droupadi Murmu on April 5 after it was handed in each Homes of Parliament following intense debate.
A number of petitions have been filed within the Supreme Court docket difficult the Waqf Act. Nevertheless, the Centre has urged the Supreme Court docket to reject the petitions, arguing that the impugned regulation doesn’t infringe upon constitutional ensures.
The brand new regulation amended the Waqf Act, 1995, to handle the regulation of Waqf properties, that’s, non secular endowments or properties devoted completely for non secular or charitable functions underneath Islamic regulation.
The petitioners difficult the validity of the Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025, argued earlier than the Supreme Court docket that the contentious amendments launched to the Waqf regulation are designed to “seize” properties by way of an government and non-judicial course of.
In response to the petitioners, the modification quantities to discrimination in opposition to Muslims and unwarranted interference in Islamic non secular affairs and the administration of waqf properties.
On April 17, the apex court docket determined to not order a keep on the Act after the federal government’s assurance that it will not implement some provisions in the meanwhile.
Through the listening to on Could 27, the Supreme Court docket sought responses from the Centre and others on petitions in opposition to the Waqf Act.
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