Gujarat State Waqf Tribunal extends UMEED registrations by six months

The order was passed by the Tribunal Chairman SM Rajpurohit and Member UM Bhatt. The order of the tribunal states, “We have heard the submissions of the Waqf Board (which) has passed a resolution (on December 6, 2025) for extension of limitation for registration of the remaining Waqf properties… The Waqf Board has produced copies of email showing the difficulties for not registering the whole Waqf properties on the UMEED portal.”

The Tribunal also cited the identical decisions of Waqf Tribunals in Jalandhar in Punjab and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, which have granted six months extension fo the respective Waqf Boards for completing the UMEED registrations. The order notes, “Almost identical reasons have been assigned by the Waqf Board, Gujarat, in its application for extension of period of limitation for six months from December 7, 2025 to June 6, 2026. The present application was submitted on December 6, 2025 and in our view, the order of extension of period should start from December 6, 2025.”

The order further states, “Considering the remaining work to be completed, we are sure that it would be completed… The entire period of extension is hereby

granted and then no extension will be allowed. In the facts and circumstances, we pass the following order to grant extension of limitation to complete the remaining process…”

Sagirahmed Ansari, Co-ordinator, Gujarat Waqf Coordination Committee welcomed the decision of the Tribunal and said, “The extension allows time not for comfort but for coordinated action… Without structured planning and continuous monitoring, the state may fall back into the same crisis of incomplete registrations. If executed collectively, Gujarat could become the first state in India to achieve near-complete Waqf documentation.”