In his capacity as Chairman of J&K Muslim Waqaf Board, Omar Abdullah passed several important orders and issued far-reaching instructions to the concerned in regard to streamlining the administration and delivery objectives of J&K Muslim Waqaf Board. The Board does not have the only responsibility of maintaining and looking after the health of the Awqaf properties and allied matters but is also functioning as a philanthropic agency catering to social service of the community especially in the areas of education, healthcare, employment and establishment. The Chief Minister has a modernist vision of the Waqaf and some of the directions issued by him vouchsafe his modernity views in religious matters. Raising upwards the emoluments of the Imams, teachers and other employees, actively considering opening of two nursing institutions in the valley, laying out of a farm to produce medicinal plants and herbs near Baba Reshi in Tangmarg area, and above all providing adequate scholarships to poor and needy students for educational and training purposes are all very progressive steps. Muslim community is bound to derive benefit out of revised schemes. The most significant is that he has ordered special audit of the Waqaf Board income and account and constituted a three-member committee to submit the report within six months for the consideration of the Board. It has to be said that at several occasions’ media has hinted at illegal grabbing of waqf land and property by influential and politically connected persons. Waqaf Board should also conduct a probe into this affair and establish its veracity. Illegal seizures have to be vacated and sooner it is done the better.
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