AHMEDABAD: Jamiat Ulama i Hind and several Waqf bodies in Gujarat have filed a petition before the Gujarat State Waqf Tribunal seeking a six-month extension for registering properties on the UMEED portal. They say the Central government’s system did not support basic functions and blocked timely compliance.
Advocate Tahir Hakim filed the petition on behalf of Jamiat Ulama i Hind in Vadodara, the Tandalja Development Council and multiple Mutawallis. The application follows the Supreme Court’s advice to approach the tribunal after it declined to extend the deadline.
The petition reports slow loading, repeated crashes and files being rejected without reasons. Several towns and districts, including Aravalli, were missing from the portal. Many checkers under the Maker Checker system say they were unable to view uploaded files and saw no option to approve or reject them. These gaps stopped applicants from completing registrations.
Administrative delays also held back the process. Many Auqaf waited for old records such as revenue papers, trust registers and audit documents because government offices had not aligned their procedures with the digital system. The Waqf Board issued PTR copies for all districts only in late November. The petition says the system made compliance impossible and calls penal action unfair.
The applicants ask the tribunal to treat July 3, 2025, the date the UMEED Rules were notified, as the real start date for compliance. They suggest November 17, 2025 as an alternative, since officials said major defects were fixed only by then. They also ask the tribunal to consider the date on which each missing town or village was added to the portal.
The petition seeks a uniform six-month extension, correction of remaining defects and a stay on penalties.
