{"id":209575,"date":"2019-02-06T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=209575"},"modified":"2019-02-06T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:54:49","slug":"amendment-of-waqf-properties-lease-rules-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/02\/06\/amendment-of-waqf-properties-lease-rules-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Amendment of Waqf Properties&#8217; Lease Rules, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to comprehensively review the implementation, assess the impact on the ground and to examine the challenges faced in the implementation of Waqf Properties Lease Rules (WPLRs), 2014 (notified on 5.6.2014 and modified on 26.8.2015), a Committee headed by Justice (Retd) Zaki Ullah Khan, of Allahabad High Court was constituted by the Ministry of Minority Affairs on 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March, 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per Waqf Management System of India (WAMSI) online portal, 5,76,457 waqf properties are registered with Waqf Boards. As per information received from Central Waqf Council, 24,831 cases pertaining to waqf properties are pending in different courts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Justice Zaki Ullah Khan Committee<\/strong>, in its report submitted on 17.1.2019, has <strong>made several recommendations which inter-alia include\u00a0 enhancement of competitive bids limit for lease of\u00a0 waqf property\u00a0 from Rs 1000 to Rs 3000 per month;\u00a0 reduction in reserve price per square feet for lease of waqf property from 2% per annum to 1% per annum for hospitals, educational institutions and social sectors and from 2.5% per annum to 1.5% per annum for commercial activities; reduction in\u00a0 security deposit payable on\u00a0 tenancy periods; increase in lease tenure period in case of shops\u00a0 from 5 years to 10 years and so on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Source: PIB]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Ministry of Minority Affairs<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Picture Credits: allgov.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to comprehensively review the implementation, assess the impact on the ground and to examine the challenges faced in the implementation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[2736,33659,33660],"class_list":["post-209575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign","category-legislationupdates","tag-Amendment","tag-lease-rules","tag-waqf-properties"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amendment of Waqf Properties&#039; 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