Hyderabad: The Telangana State Wakf Board, Continuing his efforts on strengthening various departments under Minority Welfare Hon’ble Deputy Chief Minister & Minister for Revenue, Mahammed Mahmood Ali, conducted a review meeting with officials of Telangana State Wakf Board at his chambers in Secretariat. Other members present in the meeting include A.K.Khan, Advisor on Minority Welfare to government of Telangana, Omer Jaleel, Secretary Minority Welfare, Mannan Farooqi, CEO, Mohammed Saleem, Chairman of Telangana State Wakf Board, Telangana State Wakf Board, and other officials of Wakf board were also present in the meeting.
The agenda points included status of the grant-in-aid to the Wakf board for the very last three years, the appointment of staff, development of Wakf properties on the lease, reconciliation of Wakf data with revenue department, the details of rents on Wakf complexes, follow-up action on Wakf Survey Commissioner, etc.
Providing clarifications to the agenda on various points CEO, Wakf board stated that the district wise details of segregation of Wakf properties in the 31 districts has been completed, for which staff has been deployed to pursue with the District Collectors on entry of the same in revenue records. The Dy. Chief Minister directed the Chief Executive Officer Wakf Board to constitute the teams in each district, comprising of Inspector Auditor, along with 2-3 other staff and to appoint three Flying squads comprising of Senior staff of Wakf boards (one squad for 10 districts) who would provide overall supervision to the district teams.
The Dy, CM also directed the CEO, Wakf board to organize one day centralized training program for these district teams, for which senior officials from the Revenue department will be roped in to enlighten them on the process to be followed in filling of complete claims of ownership for mutation into the revenue records with regard to the Wakf lands, during the ongoing re-survey under taken by the Revenue department.
That, on the proposal from the Secretary, Minority Welfare, Dy. CM agreed to consider the proposal for hiring 25-50 retired persons from the office of Wakf Survey Commissioner, that, for the above purpose and hiring of the vehicles for each district team to be used while conducting the survey of Wakf lands in the field.
