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Gujarat Waqf Scam
Broad daylight loot of worth Rs 15 lakh crores
Wake-up Call for Muslims, time to act before it is too late
(Part -1)
Bilkul Special Report:By: Rafat Nayeem Quadri
Ahmedabad: Each Muslim of Gujarat is worth Rs. 0.19 lakh crores, even if he is starving and is totally upset about his life. But, thanks to his visionary forefathers and ancestors who left vast Waqf property (if assessed at prevailing rates) for him which could have been used for brightening his past present and future.
80 lakh Muslims of Gujarat inherit 55,000 acres ( or roughly 266 200 000 sq yards) of Waqf land in the form of 11,428 properties. Majority of these properties situated in prime locations of Gujarat cities can fetch billions of rupees while the rental premises can fetch decent figures of crores of rupees. Most of the properties are housing religious and worshipping places like mosques, dargahs, Idgahs, Madresa, orphanage, musafirkhanas, jamat khanas, grave yards, Imambadas, khankhah .
This is the official number of properties on paper in Gujarat Waqf Board files. These figures have been varying every year, if newspaper reports of past are seen, you find inconsistency in facts of GWB figures.
There is no authentic and complete record available with the
Gujarat Waqf Board (GWB). GWB has no idea whatsoever as to how much is really existing there in reality, whether it is there or not. Whether the rent and sale amount they received (as percentage for administrative contribution) of the Waqf properties all these years and now are really existing, they are not sure.
No fencing, surveying or photo and video shoot has been done to preserve a complete record and maintain it by physical checks of these properties.
According to a former member of the GWF, off record, hundreds of acres of land and property of Waqf across Gujarat is not registered or shown in record. Whether it exists anymore or not, even that is not known.
On the face of it, if Waqf properties’ proper management and development was done, Muslims state of affairs would have been dramatically different, glorious and shining.
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