Hyderabad: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board sought an urgent meeting with Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs George Kurian to address technical problems on the UMEED portal. The portal is the central platform for uploading details of all Waqf properties in India. The Supreme Court refused to extend the six month deadline, which ends on December 6. The court said Waqf Tribunals can examine technical issues while considering requests for more time.
AIMPLB representatives reported repeated cases of slow speed, sudden crashes and complete outages on the portal. They said mutawallis face serious difficulty in uploading records. Dr SQR Illyas said the volume of properties makes the deadline unmanageable. He said it is impossible to upload lakhs of entries within the current timeframe. He urged the minister to fix the technical issues and extend the deadline.
In a letter to the minister, AIMPLB general secretary Maulana Muhammad Fazlur Rahim Mujaddidi reminded the government that it had mandated the upload of all properties already registered with state Waqf Boards. He said the portal’s performance issues interfere with compliance. He also said the six month period is too short for the scale of the task.
India has more than eight lakh Waqf properties. AIMPLB and other organisations held workshops across the country to guide mutawallis. They also set up help desks to support the process. The efforts did not close the gap created by the portal’s workload and downtime.
The government launched the UMEED portal on June 6. It aims to build a digital and geo tagged database of Waqf assets. The Board said it seeks cooperation from the ministry to ensure accuracy, timely registration and a process that respects ground challenges.
