NEW DELHI: With a bit of over 3 lakh property uploads initiated on the Central Waqf Portal (UMEED) to date and the six month deadline set out beneath the Waqf (Modification) Act 2025 coming to an finish on December 5, the ministry of minority affairs on Monday urged individuals who have nonetheless not registered to “hurry” and add particulars as it’s “obligatory” and solely “4 days are left”.The ministry’s submit on For many who fail to add by Friday, the one choice might be to strategy the waqf tribunal. Provided that the tribunal is glad with the explanations for not submitting inside the deadline, it could enable extension of time as much as six months.
West Bengal which has been strongly opposing the amended Waqf Act final week reportedly issued instructions to the state authorities to stick 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 variety of properties from the state which have initiated importing stood at 5,478 on Monday night.Of the three lakh plus uploads initiated, the properties are at completely different levels of verification and as of Monday 7,353 have been rejected and over 41,000 have been awaiting approval.Whereas 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 might be holding a web based assembly with Waqf Boards on Tuesday to satisfy the deadline. The broad variation in information uploads throughout states signifies a chance of decline within the complete variety of properties which may end up efficiently importing the data inside the deadline.On considerations 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.On the time of the launch of the portal that goals to convey transparency within the database, the ministry had shared that there have been over 8.72 lakh properties registered as waqf as per information shared by states. Nonetheless, ministry officers stated that the information on the sooner – Waqf Property Administration System of India (WAMSI) was discovered to be severely missing necessitating a brand new portal (UMEED) that seeks to plug the gaps.