By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Ambala (Haryana): This is first time in its history that the Haryana Wakf Board has generated income to the mark of Rs 11.83 crore during the financial year 2007-2008. This is Rs 4.50 crore more than the previous financial year.
The financial report of the board was made public at the fifth annual general meeting of the board held here on 29th July. Haryana Governor A R Kidwai was the chief guest at the function.
Addressing the gathering consisted of members of the board, imams of mosques, heads of mosques, heads of madrasas and other senior officers, Dr Kidwai put emphasis on the need of modern education that should be imparted at madrasas besides religious education. He said the Wakf Board has a crucial role to play in it, says a report in the daily The Tribune.
Presenting the annual report of the board, Hanif Qureshi, CEO of the board, said the board had spent a huge amount of Rs 1.26 crore on various educational and welfare schemes launched by the board for the benefit of the minorities.
He said that projects to set up women polytechnic in Panipat and a polytechnic/medical lab technicians/physiotherapy college in Yamunanagar district are in the line.
During the past five years, the board has recovered 288 encroached wakf properties through courts by way of compromise, he said.
In a major step to trace out unregistered wakf properties, the state government has now appointed divisional commissioner of Ambala, Rohtak, Hisar and Gurgaon as survey commissioners. They will conduct survey to trace out wakf properties not registered as wakf properties in the survey conducted during 1963-1969 period of erstwhile Punjab state.
In the six districts of Jhajjar, Rohtak, Sonepat, Karnal, Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar where such survey has already been conducted, as many as 392 new wakf properties worth Rs 134.17 crore have been traced out.