Slow process, glitches-why uploading details on UMEED portal a Headache for Mutavallis

Alleging that there are several issues plaguing the process of uploading documents on the UMEED portal, Muslim organisations across the country have demanded that the deadline for the process be extended even as the government has asked the Waaf property caretakers to move the Wagf tribunals in their respective states.

- SHIKHA SALARIA

Delhi Waqf Board. Image used for representational purpose

However, some Muslim leaders have flagged the issue of incomplete Wagf tribunals functioning in states like Uttar Pradesh which has one of the highest number of Waaf properties registered with its Waqfboards.

In a letter to the Union Minister for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has said that due to the slow speed of the UMEED portal and other technical problems, Waaf property caretakers have been unable to upload their details on the portal.

“…the government itself intended that all wagf properties already registered with the Waqf boards must be uploaded on the portal. However, due to the portal’s slow speed and other technical problems, this could not be achieved,” the AIMPLB's general secretary Maulana Muhammad Fazlur Rahim Mujaddidi has written in the letter.

Speaking to TDG, AIMPLB spokesperson SQR Ilyas said that while the board estimates that there are about 8,40,000 Waaf properties registered with the different Waqf boards across the country, details of only about three lakh properties have been uploaded on the UMEED portal so far which is much less than the total number of properties registered.

“Once mutavallis and caretakers got to know that they have no option but to upload the details of the Wagf properties on the UMEED portal, everyone started uploading their details leading to the portal crashing repeatedly. It is the government's stand that if a property has already been registered, its details have to be uploaded. If the government really wants that the details of the properties be uploaded, it should acknowledge that there are genuine problems in the process,” he said.