**Executive Summary**
This document addresses questions regarding the registration of waqf properties on the UMEED Central Portal-2025, as asked in the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 819. The Ministry of Minority Affairs provided details on the number of waqf properties registered by the initial deadline of December 6, 2025, and the subsequent reopening of the portal for specific State/UT Waqf Boards. State-wise details of registered properties are provided in the annexures.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **UMEED Portal Launch and Purpose:**
* The UMEED Central Portal-2025 was launched on June 6, 2025, for uploading details of existing and new waqf properties.
* The portal facilitates the management and governance of waqf properties.
* **Registration Deadline and Initial Results:**
* The initial six-month deadline for uploading details concluded on December 6, 2025.
* 517,082 existing waqf properties were initiated by Makers on the Portal
* 216,937 properties were validated and approved by Approvers.
* 10,872 properties were rejected during verification.
* **Extension and Reopening of Portal:**
* The Waqf Tribunal may extend the registration period by up to six months if sufficient cause is shown.
* The UMEED Central Portal-2025 has been reopened for State/UT Waqf Boards with received orders.
* The portal is exclusively for uploading details of existing waqf and properties dedicated to waqf.
* **State-wise Data:**
* Annexure-I details the state-wise waqf properties registered by the end of the initial deadline.
* Annexure-II provides the state-wise status of uploading of waqf details across the country as of February 2, 2026.
**Impact Analysis**
**Stakeholder:** Ministry of Minority Affairs
* **Impact:** Responsible for the overall management and governance of waqf properties through the UMEED portal.
* **Action Required:** Continue monitoring the uploading process of waqf properties on the UMEED portal and ensuring compliance with the Act.
**Stakeholder:** State/UT Waqf Boards
* **Impact:** Responsible for uploading details of existing and new waqf properties within their jurisdiction.
* **Action Required:** State/UT Waqf Boards with received orders, can upload details of properties dedicated to waqf. They should gather and upload all necessary information to the UMEED portal before any further deadlines.
**Stakeholder:** Waqf Tribunal
* **Impact:** Has the authority to grant extensions to the registration deadline.
* **Action Required:** Review and process applications for deadline extensions, ensuring applicants demonstrate sufficient cause for the delay.
**Stakeholder:** Makers and Approvers of Waqf Properties
* **Impact:** Responsible for the submission and verification of waqf properties on the UMEED Portal.
* **Action Required:** Makers need to ensure that the initiation process is completed for remaining initiated properties, Approvers should process with the maker-checker-approver workflow and validate properties.
Key Entities Referenced
UMEED Central Portal-2025: A statutory portal developed and launched by the Ministry of Minority Affairs for uploading details of existing and new waqf properties, and facilitating the overall management and governance of waqf.
Ministry of Minority Affairs: The central ministry responsible for developing and launching the UMEED Central Portal-2025 and administering the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995.
Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995: The Act that provides the legal framework for the management, empowerment, efficiency, and development of waqf properties and under which the UMEED Central Portal-2025 was launched.
Waqf Board: State/UT level bodies responsible for the administration and management of Waqf properties. The UMEED Central Portal 2025 was reopened for those State/UT Waqf Boards in respect of which such orders have been received.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 819
TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.02.2026
DEADLINE OF REGISTRATION OF WAQF PROPERTIES ON UMEED PORTAL
819: SHRI BALASHOWRY VALLABHANENI:
Will the Minister of MINORITY AFFAIRS be please to State:-
(a) the details of the number of waqf properties in the country, State-wise;
(b) whether deadline of registering waqf properties on UMEED portal is over;
(c) if so, the details of waqf properties registered on UMEED portal at the end of the deadline,
State-wise;
(d) whether it is a fact that in some States, the registration is not even 10 per cent of total waqf
properties and if so, the details and the reasons therefor; and
(e) whether there is any plan to start registration process again for such properties and if so, the
details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF MINORITY AFFAIRS
(SHRI KIREN RIJIJU)
(a) to (e): In accordance with the provisions of Section 3(ka) of the Unified Waqf Management,
Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995, the Ministry of Minority Affairs
developed and launched the statutory UMEED Central Portal-2025 on 06.06.2025 for uploading
details of existing waqf, registration of new waqf, and for facilitating the overall management
and governance of waqf in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Further, Section 3B(1) of
the Act mandates that details of all existing waqf and waqf-dedicated properties registered prior
to the commencement of the Act shall be uploaded on the Portal within a period of six months.
The details of waqf properties registered on UMEED Central Portal-2025 at the end of deadline,
state-wise is attached at Annexure-I.
The initial six-month period concluded on 06.12.2025, and accordingly, the Portal was
closed at 23:59 hours on the same day. During this period, a total of 5,17,082 existing waqf
properties were initiated by Makers on the Portal. Of these, 2,16,937 properties were validated
and approved by Approvers, while 10,872 properties were rejected during the verification
process. The remaining initiated properties were at various stages of processing under the
prescribed maker–checker–approver workflow.
The Act also provides that the Waqf Tribunal may, on an application, extend such period
of six months under this section for a further period not exceeding six months as it may consider
appropriate and if he satisfies that he had sufficient cause for not filing the details of the Waqf on
the portal within such period. In view of the statutory remedy available under the Act, extensions
of time were granted to the concerned State/UT Waqf Boards by the respective Hon’bleTribunals/Courts. At present, the UMEED Central Portal–2025 has been reopened for those
State/UT Waqf Boards in respect of which such orders have been received, exclusively for the
purpose of uploading details of existing waqf and properties dedicated to waqf. As on
02.02.2026, the state-wise status of uploading of waqf details across the country on the UMEED
Central Portal-2025 is attached at Annexure-II.
******ANNEXURE-I
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTPART (A) to (E) OF THE LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 819 FOR ANSWER ON 04.02.2026 REGARDING ‘DEADLINE OF
REGISTRATION OF WAQF PROPERTIES ON UMEED PORTAL’ ASKED BY SHRI
BALASHOWRY VALLABHANENI
S. State waqf June July August Septembe Octobe November December Total
No Board Name r r
1 Andaman And 0 0 0 0 12 119 82 213
Nicobar Islands
2 Andhra Pradesh 0 4 0 52 421 9523 1290 11290
3 Assam 0 0 2 1 32 306 340 681
4 Bihar Shia 0 0 12 6 15 3379 1808 5220
5 Bihar Sunni 0 10 193 181 161 5208 4231 9984
6 Chandigarh 0 0 10 5 3 5 0 23
7 Chhattisgarh 0 0 0 0 0 1091 833 1924
8 Dadra & Nagar 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2
Haveli And
Daman And Diu
9 Delhi 2 1 0 1 22 2194 932 3152
10 Gujarat 0 1 2 18 468 8246 18725 27460
11 Haryana 1 0 0 439 3701 8580 724 13445
12 Himachal 1 0 0 62 204 542 90 899
Pradesh
13 Jammu And 0 0 18 558 1202 17490 6025 25293
Kashmir
14 Jharkhand 0 0 1 22 27 247 259 556
15 Karnataka 0 0 0 31 5816 46578 5903 58328
16 Kerala 0 3 0 0 32 2995 39747 42777
17 Lakshadweep 0 0 1 3 2 43 419 468
18 Madhya Pradesh 0 1 0 3 15 4904 16398 21321
19 Maharashtra 0 2 15 37 2196 39657 21032 62939
20 Manipur 1 3 0 0 0 248 141 393
21 Meghalaya 0 0 0 0 0 7 6 13
22 Odisha 1 12 107 945 1942 1344 1850 6201
23 Puducherry 0 0 0 0 1 145 474 620
24 Punjab 1 2 4 1655 4298 16421 3529 25910
25 Rajasthan 0 4 13 11 168 7073 14969 22238
26 Tamil Nadu 0 0 0 0 12 1432 6808 8252
27 Telangana 0 1 0 2 2244 23189 21046 46482
28 Tripura 0 0 397 1 0 1879 503 2780
29 Uttarakhand 0 2 7 100 225 775 1170 2279
30 UP Shia 0 0 12 51 163 3230 3030 6486
31 UP Sunni 2 2 7 140 2354 31363 52494 86362
32 West Bengal 2 3 21 3 90 4248 18724 23091
Total 11 51 822 4327 25826 242463 243582 517082ANNEXURE-II
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART PART (A) to (E) OF THE LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 819 FOR ANSWER ON 04.02.2026 REGARDING ‘DEADLINE OF
REGISTRATION OF WAQF PROPERTIES ON UMEED PORTAL’ ASKED BY SHRI
BALASHOWRY VALLABHANENI
Waqf Progress Report
Sr. State Waqf No of Waqf No of No of No of Total Total Total No
No. Board Property Makers Checkers Approvers Rejected Pending of Waqf
Initiated Submitted Submitted Approved Property for Property
forUploadin Approval Initiated
g TillDate
1 Andaman 58 0 1 147 7 1 213
And Nicobar
Islands
2 Andhra 184 80 122 11057 69 122 11512
Pradesh
3 Arunach 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
al
Pradesh
4 Assam 65 417 0 171 18 0 671
5 Bihar Shia 332 29 0 4758 68 0 5187
6 Bihar Sunni 1159 2105 52 6466 797 52 10579
7 Chandigarh 1 0 0 22 0 0 23
8 Chhattisgarh 110 82 6 1723 155 6 2076
9 Delhi 243 2845 0 64 4 0 3156
10 Goa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Gujarat 2518 354 99 23793 998 99 27762
12 Haryana 407 8 8 12884 117 8 13424
13 Himach 58 5 0 836 4 0 903
al
Pradesh
14 Jammu 222 2 0 25469 53 0 25746
And
Kashmir
15 Jharkhand 135 530 0 107 0 0 772
16 Karnataka 4238 103 26 52531 1166 26 58064
17 Kerala 3461 37336 3371 715 1182 3371 46065
18 Ladakh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Lakshadweep 119 36 0 299 13 0 46720 Madhya 1647 5903 7993 10534 1178 7993 27255
Pradesh
21 Maharashtra 4164 29850 7423 17966 3679 7423 63082
22 Manipur 16 0 0 375 2 0 393
23 Meghalaya 0 0 0 13 0 0 13
24 Mizoram 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
25 Nagaland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 Odisha 468 9 2359 3255 114 2359 6205
27 Puducherry 20 62 4 507 27 4 620
28 Punjab 719 28 82 24960 223 82 26012
29 Rajasthan 2221 8483 4444 2878 4802 4444 22828
30 Sikkim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 Tamil Nadu 2257 515 261 5272 747 261 9052
32 Telangana 4903 33099 6682 8929 4458 6682 58071
33 The Dadra 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
And Nagar
Haveli And
Daman And
34 DTriiup ura 23 0 0 2708 45 0 2776
35 Uttarakhand 250 79 106 1327 644 106 2406
36 Uttar Pradesh 812 2760 1810 1097 889 1810 7368
Shia
37 Uttar Pradesh 10494 64545 1509 13430 1472 1509 91450
Sunni
38 West Bengal 2133 41490 7768 5232 1765 7768 58388
Total 43438 230756 44126 239525 24696 44126 582541