Nearly four months after the Centre launched UMEED portal – a centralised digital platform for real-time uploading, verification, and monitoring of Waqf properties – only around 4,000 properties have been registered so far compared to the total 8.72 lakh Waqf establishments spread across 30 States/UTs, covering more than 38 lakh acres of land.

While Waqf Board officials from several States have complained about legal and technical issues on the portal, an official from the Ministry of Minority Affairs attributed the sluggish registrations to the absence of “fool-proof records”, making it ‘impossible’ to fill the required data before the six-month registration deadline in December.

In States such as Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Haryana and Maharashtra, Waqf officials said the portal throws up

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