Central Waqf Council

Central Waqf Council
Headquarters	Central Waqf Council, P-13 & 14, Sector-6, Pushp Vihar, Opposite Family Court, Saket, New Delhi-110017
Region served	India
Official language	Hindi, English & Urdu
Chairman	Minister of State for Ministry of Minority Affairs^[1]
Main organ	Council
Affiliations	Ministry of Minority Affairs, Govt. of India
Website	Official website

Central Waqf Council is an Indian statutory body established by the Government of India under the Waqf Act, a subsection of the Waqf Act, 1995. It was established for the purpose of advising it on matters pertaining to the working of the State Waqf Boards and proper administration of the Waqfs in the country. Waqf is a permanent dedication of movable or immovable properties for religious, pious or charitable purposes as recognized by Muslim Law, given by philanthropists. The grant is known as mushrut-ul-khidmat, while a person making such dedication is known as Wakif.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

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The Council

Central Waqf Council is a statutory body under the administrative control of the Ministry of Minority Affairs was set up in 1964 as per the provision given in the Waqf Act, 1954 as Advisory Body to the Central Government on matters concerning the working of the Waqf Boards and the due administration of Auqaf.

This act was later repealed before it was replaced by Waqf Act which was passed in 1995.^[7]

State Waqf Boards

The State Waqf Boards are established by the State Governments in view of the provisions of Section 9(1) of the Waqf Act, 1954.^[8]^[9] These work towards management, regulation and protect the Waqf properties by constituting District Waqf Committees, Mandal Waqf Committees and Committees for the individual Waqf Institutions. The Waqf Boards shall be body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire and hold property. In the case that more than fifteen per cent of the total number of waqf property is Shia waqf, or the income thereof is more than fifteen per cent, the Act envisages a separate Shia Waqf Board.

Andhra Pradesh Waqf Board
Assam Wakf Board
Bihar State Sunni Waqf Board
Bihar State Shia Wakf Board
Chhattisgarh Wakf Board
Delhi Wakf Board
Gujarat Wakf Board
Haryana Waqf Board
Himachal Wakf Board
Jharkhand State Sunni Waqf Board
Karnataka Wakf Board
Kerala Wakf Board
Madhya Pradesh Wakf Board
Maharashtra State Board of Waqfs
Manipur Wakf Board
Meghalaya Wakf Board^[1]
Odisha Wakf Board
Punjab Wakf Board
Rajasthan Board of Muslim Wakfs
Tamilnadu Wakf Board
Tripura Wakf Board
Telangana Waqf Board
Uttarakhand Wakf Board
Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board; Shia Wakf Board
West Bengal Wakf Board
Andaman Nicobar Wakf Board
Chandigarh Wakf Board
Laxdweep Wakf Board
Dadra & Nagar Haveli Wakf Board
Puducherry Wakf Board

Presently there are thirty Waqf Boards across the country in twenty-eight states and Union territories. States such as Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim and the Union Territory Daman and Diu have no Waqf Board at present. The Waqf Act 1995 is not applicable to Jammu and Kashmir.

Justice Shashvat Kumar, who headed the Shashvat Committee has prepared a status report on Muslims in India in 2011 and the finding of this report was that Nationwide, Waqf properties constitute a land bank worth Rs. 1.2 lakh crore and could have generated annual returns of Rs. 12,000 crores but yielded only Rs. 163 crores and found that there was "a severe shortage of senior government officers who are Muslim to manage waqf affairs. A separate cadre would mean officers who are not only permanent but also qualified enough".^[10]

The Haryana Wakf Board (HWB) registered an all-time high income of Rs 17.03 crore during 2010–11, which is Rs 3.33 crore higher than the previous year. During 2010–11, the Board spent Rs 3.32 crore on various educational and welfare activities. The Board had earmarked Rs 6.47 crore in the budget for 2011–12 to meet the main objectives of waqfs and various educational and welfare activities, he said.^[11]

The central as well as state Waqf Boards have been involved in corruption, land encroachment, and misappropriation of funds.^[12]^[13] The Karnataka Wakf Board Land Scam is one such case.

References

^ ^a ^b "Members". CFC website. Archived from the original on 4 October 2010.
^ Ariff, Mohamed (1991). The Islamic voluntary sector in Southeast Asia. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 42. ISBN 981-3016-07-8.
^ Gupta, K.R.; Amita Gupta (2006). Concise encyclopaedia of India, (Volume 1). Atlantic Publishers. p. 191. ISBN 81-269-0637-5.
^ "EXPLAINED: What is a Waqf board, and what are its governing principles?". www.timesnownews.com. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
^ "Explained: How a waqf is created, and the laws that govern such properties". The Indian Express. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
^ "Waqf board handles Muslim rulers' property | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. 2 October 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
^ Hussain, P.S.M. (2020). Muslim Endowments, Waqf Law and Judicial Response in India. Taylor & Francis. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-000-33705-1. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
^ "The Waqf Act, 1954" (PDF). Central Waqf Council. Central Waqf Council, Minority Affairs of India. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
^ Danyal, Kahkashan Y. (2015). The Law of Waqf in India. New Delhi: Regal Publications. p. 60. ISBN 9788184844726.
^ "Sachar sought a dedicated waqf cadre, govt said no". Indian Express. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
^ "Haryana Wakf Board registers Rs 17.03 cr income". Press Trust of India. 29 July 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Waqf board chief alleges corruption by former chairmen". Deccan Herald. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
^ "Wakf boards mired in corruption". Afternoon Voice. 7 March 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

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