Govt mulls digitization of Waqf Board properties
TNN Bureau. Updated: 7/24/2021 10:28:05 AM
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Jammu: Likewise in other parts of the country, the digitization of Waqf records is underway, Jammu and Kashmir Government may also plan to begin similar exercises soon aiming digitization of property under Waqf Board across the Union Territory.
Official sources said that the target of completing the digitization of all records of Waqf comprising accounts and properties, has already started in the country, adding, “It will be an open and transparent system and by 2022 financial year once the process will be completed throughout the country.”
Member of the Central Waqf Council and Chairperson of the Waqf Development Committee, Union Ministry of Minority Affairs, Darakshan Andrabi had also made these revelations in the recent past and advocated for digitization of the records.
“The responsibility of 133 mosques and shrines in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is no longer with the Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Waqf Board and are now under the control of Central Waqf Board,” sources said.
They added that the Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board was formed about 16 years ago out of the Muslim Auqaf Trust.
There is 9,70,071 kanals of land in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir under the Board besides around 2000 shops, houses and other building structures are among the assets of the Board.
Sources said that Dr Aradambi has also called on the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha and informed about the steps taken to digitize the Waqf property records across the country.
She also requested the Lieutenant Governor to implement the e-system of Waqf Management in Jammu and Kashmir.
Meanwhile official sources said that Waqf properties are being misused, encroached upon, occupied illegally but now with establishment of Waqf boards, there will be a complete transparency.