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A missive from the West Bengal Minority Affairs Department, directing each District Magistrates to upload information connected registered waqf properties successful the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development (UMEED) portal, has fixed the Opposition an accidental to people the ruling Trinamool Congress authorities successful the State.
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was passed by Parliament successful April 2025. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had said the instrumentality would not beryllium implemented successful the State.
A missive by P.B. Salim, Secretary, West Bengal Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education Department, to each District Magistrates (DMs) connected November 27 states that each the ‘Existing Registered Waqf Properties’ are to beryllium uploaded by the respective mutawallis (managers/trustees) wrong six months from the day of motorboat of the UMEED Central Portal. The said six-month play expires connected December 5, 2025.
The missive besides states that, successful West Bengal, determination are astir 82,000 waqf properties nether 8,000 waqf estates to beryllium uploaded by the mutawallis of the waqfs.
The connection has provided an accidental for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to people the West Bengal government.
“After spending months provoking the Muslim assemblage to reason the Waqf Amendment Act, Mamata Banerjee has yet bowed to the law. Seven months later, the West Bengal authorities has accepted the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025,” BJP person Amit Malviya said connected societal media.
All District Magistrates had been instructed to upload details of each waqf spot connected the UMEED portal, Mr. Malviya said. “The directive came done P.B. Salim, Secretary of the Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education Department, successful a missive to each DMs. In abbreviated — West Bengal volition person to tally arsenic per the instrumentality of the onshore and the Constitution, not Mamata Banerjee’s authorities of obstruction,” the caput of the BJP’s IT compartment said.
In the letter, Mr. Salim has expained an eight-point programme for uploading the details of waqf properties connected the UMEED portal, including familiarising with the portal, organising meetings and workshops by involving the mutawallis, and imams (madrasa teachers) connected uploading the details. A database of mutawallis has been shared, information introduction is to beryllium carried retired successful 2 parts, with archetypal OTP (one clip password)-based registration by idiosyncratic mutawallis, and enrolment of waqf spot details.
The connection besides suggested that arguable waqf properties, if any, request not beryllium registered successful this phase. In his letter, Mr. Salim asked officials to beryllium assigned specifically for the task; regular advancement monitored; elder officers from State-level offices beryllium deployed to sojourn the respective districts; regular grooming (from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.) successful virtual mode to beryllium provided by the State Waqf Board, which could beryllium attended from each offices crossed the State.
