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With December 6 being the past time for registering waqf institutions and uploading applicable documents connected the UMEED portal, the Telangana State Waqf Board (TGWB) said connected Saturday that it had approached the Waqf Tribunal seeking a six-month hold of the deadline.
Speaking to The Hindu, TGWB Chief Executive Officer Mohammed Asadullah said, “We had decided to attack the Waqf Tribunal to question an extension. We person filed our exertion connected Saturday, and volition diligently travel up.” The Board, helium added, was hopeful of a favourable order.
The six-month hold has been sought nether Section 3B of the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025. The Board has cited persistent method issues with the UMEED portal, including predominant slowdowns and outages, which person delayed registrations. While a ample fig of properties person been registered connected the portal by “makers”, the process of verification by “checkers” and last support by “approvers” remains incomplete. The hold has besides been sought to alteration the postulation of humanities documents from the Qutb Shahi and Asaf Jahi periods that picture the quality of institutions and their properties arsenic waqf.
At astir 7 p.m. connected Saturday, the TGWB said that arsenic galore arsenic 45,150 waqf institutions had been registered connected the portal, with the fig expected to emergence marginally by midnight. The registration of institutions covered successful the archetypal survey (over 33,900) has been completed. About 400 institutions from the 2nd survey person besides been registered.
Registrations of institutions nether the erstwhile Nizam’s Umoor-e-Mazhabi (Ecclesiastical Department), astir 3,800, are nether way, of which astir 200 person been registered truthful far. However, a ample fig of aged and salient institutions are yet to beryllium registered.
Meanwhile, disorder implicit the past day of registration prevailed connected the intervening nighttime of December 5 and 6. Board officials and members of the nationalist admitted that they were unsure of the nonstop deadline. An official, requesting anonymity, said the unit had been intimately monitoring whether the UMEED portal would stay functional oregon halt accepting registrations aft 12.01 americium connected December 6. It was lone aft the portal was recovered to beryllium moving that officials heaved a suspiration of relief.
Registrations person besides been happening astatine different locations specified arsenic the Jama Masjid adjacent Uppal Stadium, and Shahi Masjid astatine Public Gardens. At some these places of worship, volunteers person been assisting applicants with the registration.
