Centre asks those who have still not registered their waqf properties on portal to ‘hurry’ | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: With a bit of over 3 lakh property uploads initiated on the Central Waqf Portal (UMEED) up to now and the six month deadline set out below the Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025 coming to an finish on December 5, the ministry of minority affairs on Monday urged individuals who have still not registered to “hurry” and add particulars as it’s “mandatory” and solely “4 days are left”.The ministry’s publish on X to expedite uploads got here after the Supreme Court refused to lengthen time for the obligatory registration of all waqf properties below the UMEED portal. For those who fail to add by Friday, the one choice will likely be to method the waqf tribunal. Only if the tribunal is happy with the explanations for not submitting inside the deadline, it will possibly permit extension of time up to six months.

West Bengal which has been strongly opposing the amended Waqf Act final week reportedly issued instructions to the state authorities to adhere to the deadline and add particulars of all waqf properties. It had not joined the method earlier though there was no official communication to the ministry on its stand on registration on the portal. The quantity of properties from the state that have initiated importing stood at 5,478 on Monday night.Of the three lakh plus uploads initiated, the properties are at totally different levels of verification and as of Monday 7,353 have been rejected and over 41,000 have been awaiting approval.While the standing of uploads stands at zero for Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim from the northeast and Goa in West and Ladakh within the north, the utmost uploads have been initiated so removed from Karnataka (54,150) adopted by Maharashtra (45,310) and Uttar Pradesh (37,104).The ministry will likely be holding a web-based assembly with Waqf Boards on Tuesday to meet the deadline. The extensive variation in knowledge uploads throughout states signifies a chance of decline within the complete quantity of properties that may lastly finish – up efficiently importing the knowledge inside the deadline.On issues associated to glitches and complexities in importing being cited by some Muslim our bodies and Muttawalis, the ministry has claimed that satisfactory coaching and conferences have been held with waqf boards.At the time of the launch of the portal that goals to deliver transparency within the database, the ministry had shared that there have been over 8.72 lakh properties registered as waqf as per knowledge shared by states. However, ministry officers stated that the information on the sooner – Waqf Assets Management System of India (WAMSI) was discovered to be severely missing necessitating a brand new portal (UMEED) that seeks to plug the gaps.