Uttarakhand Waqf Board’s new chairman Shadab Shams stated on Sunday that the Uttarakhand Waqf Board will quickly demolish unlawful constructions on its properties throughout the state.
Shams was elected unopposed because the chairman of the 10-member board on 7 September. Shams says that there’s unlawful encroachment on Waqf properties price Rs 1.5 lakh crore in Uttarakhand.
The board, in its assembly to be held on September 15, will current a proposal to purchase or rent the required bulldozers to take away unlawful encroachments on waqf land throughout the state.
“Thousands of acres of waqf land is illegally occupied in numerous elements of the state. We wish to free our properties from the clutches of the mafia in order that they are often made helpful to the folks for whom they’re really made.
He stated notices have been being served to unlawful occupants and the motion would begin someday subsequent week.
“The motion will begin from Prem Nagar in Dehradun, the place 14 bighas of waqf land is occupied by Aligarh Muslims, who had come right here years in the past to work in factories within the Selaki space and made their house there. About 200 households dwell on such lands.
“Who knows who they are. They could be people with dubious antecedents. Uttarakhand is not a hospice.”
He stated that the Waqf Board needs to provide land for progressive actions like growing shelter houses for the needy, teaching institutes and talent improvement facilities for the youth.
Shams stated the Waqf Board has additionally made large plans to restructure the curriculum of its madrasas, scale back the hours of copying spiritual texts and allot them for instructing NCERT books.
“The Uttarakhand Board syllabus will be offered in around 103 madrassas run by the Waqf Board and NCERT books will be taught there,” he stated.
“We want that modern education should be given to the children in madrasas, as in any other school. We will make such a system in our madrasas where only two hours will be allotted for teaching Quran and Hadith to the students. The rest of the hours will be devoted to teaching other subjects like any other school,” he stated.
“Why not the scholars produced by madrasas additionally develop into docs and engineers. I need the Muslims of the nation to comply with the instance of former President APJ Abdul Kalam and develop into progressive nationalists as an alternative of fanatics.
The board additionally plans to put in CCTV cameras to keep up a file of actions in madrasas.
“We want complete transparency in our activities,” Shams stated.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
