Updated On: 04 November, 2024 11:13 AM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
The Waqf Act of 1995, which regulates waqf properties, has faced criticism over issues of mismanagement, corruption, and encroachments. The proposed Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, seeks to implement significant reforms, including digitisation, enhanced auditing, greater transparency, and legal mechanisms to reclaim illegally occupied properties

JPC Chairman and BJP MP Jagdambika Pal. File Pic
The Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) for the Waqf Amendment Bill, Jagdambika Pal, on Monday announced that a series of meetings will be held on November 4 and 5 to discuss the Waqf Board Amendment Bill. These sessions aim to gather insights from a diverse array of stakeholders, including Islamic scholars, former judges, SC and HC lawyers, and minority organisations, reported news agency ANI.
"When the resolution for the Joint Parliamentary Committee was brought by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, he said that he wanted to refer it to the JPC so that we could call more and more stakeholders, intellectuals, Islamic scholars, former judges, lawyers of the Supreme Court and high court, minority organisations," JPC Chairman Pal said while speaking to ANI.