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NATIONAL WAQF ACADEMY
(A unit of Zakat Foundation of India)
Please Click Here
News about Waqf
properties in various states & UTs keep circulating often without
resolution. Even no news is not good news since tens of thousands of
matters are pending unresolved. Rare good news also remains just news as
the lessons therefrom remain to be emulated.
There is a well laid down infrastructure recently strengthened and
honed, spanning the Central Waqf Council and the thirty-two State Waqf
Boards (including one Shia Waqf Board each in UP and Bihar). The CWC
advises the Government of India on Waqf matters and is legally empowered
to advise and direct the SWBs and monitor their performance. The State
Waqf Boards are equipped with public representatives namely MPs and MLAs,
senior advocates, scholars/social workers, government officials as
members and the chief executive officers. Mutawallis and a lady members
are also mandated representatives.
Since around 2010 this sprawling machinery is assisted by National
Informatics Centre for digitization of approximately 7,50,000 Waqf
properties. For the working of the CWC and SWBs the revenue is envisaged
/ legally provided through 2% to 7% contribution from the income of waqf
properties. The system and working procedures are laid down. On the
other hand there is an unfathomed / least utilized wealth of revenue
records, alienation records, grant records and district gazetteers.
The net result is far from being satisfactory. Encroachment of Waqf
properties is rampant for decades, malfeasance, corruption and general
apathy compounded by public ignorance and disinterest have cumulatively
created an unenviable canvas to liberate waqf properties and protect
them.
During the Corona pandemic (2020-2021) some interested persons came
together interacting in spite of the constraints of social distancing -
organizing webinars and working individually and collectively.
Now we need to provide for a STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE or SYSTEM for
collection, collation and preservation of information and its systematic
and result oriented utilization.
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PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF WAQF ACTIVITIES
This portal of
National Waqf Academy will maintain database of waqf related
developments in India as well as the works done by the
activists. Based on such data the efforts and contribution
towards resolution of waqf issues will be deliberated upon and
the progress will be monitored and recorded. Such storehouse of
dynamic flow of information is expected to help in fructifying
India’s shared waqf aspirations.
2. Currently some activists are reporting the developments in
their respective states / UTs via WhatsApp messages. These
reports need to be preserved on this portal for wider sharing of
the best practices.
3. The NWA portal also plans to provide information pertaining
to the district and sub-division of unregistered waqf properties
- name/description of the property, site, size, value etc (as
required in the “report card' of properties in wamsi).
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1 |
Waqf Law as laid down by Courts |
Sri Faizi O. Hashmi, Ex Member,
Delhi Waqf Tribunal |
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Waqf Boards: Composition &
Powers |
Sri Abdur Rauf Shaikh, Ex CEO,
Maharashtra Waqf Board |
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Legal issues and financing the
Waqf land development |
Sri Ishtiaq Ali, Advocate,
Mumbai |
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Waqf Role of DM, ADM, SDM |
Sri Sirajuddin Ansari, Ex ADM,
Bihar |
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Functioning of Delhi Waqf Board |
Dr Tabassum Rasul, Researcher
with PhD on Auqaf in India |
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