While introducing the Bill in Parliament, Union minister Kiran Rijiju said the bill is in accordance with the earlier recommendations made by the Sachar committee and the JPC headed by you…Not a single recommendation has been incorporated from either Sachar Committee or JPC. For example, the Sachar Committee and the JPC had emphatically said that to develop the Waqf properties, they should establish a Waqf development corporation. This was one of the major recommendations of the JPC. The UPA government in 2014 January established a corporation with a capital of Rs 500 crore. In the last 10 years, the government has done nothing, and it is on the verge of closure.The proposal to make the district collector the arbiter on whether a property is Waqf or government land, has also been contested by many. How do you see it?Earlier, surveying the waqf properties was handled by survey commissioners under the 1995 Act. Now it is entrusted with district collectors or officers of equivalent rank to bring about transparency. By doing this, they are giving all the powers to the collectors.
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