Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting on Waqf (Amendment) Bill to be held on December 26 and 27

The meeting of Joint Committee Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 is scheduled to be held on December 26 and 27.

On December 26, the committee will record oral evidence of the representatives of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan, and on December 27, the committee will hear oral evidence of the representatives of Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Delhi on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, ANI reported.

This comes after the Waqf (Amendment) Bill last Thursday received support from a group of Muslims, including academicians and clerics, at the meeting of a parliamentary committee scrutinising the draft law, and some of them suggested that Waqf properties should be also used to open educational and health facilities.

Syed Abubakar Naqvi, ex-chairman of the Waqf Board, Rajasthan, Mahrukh Mirza, former vice chancellor of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Language University, Lucknow, and Maulana Raza Husain of Majlis-e-ulema-e-Hind, were among those who appeared before the joint parliamentary committee headed by BJP MP Jagdambika Pal.

Naqvi described the bill as progressive which will boost the country's development as he added that the existing law was full of shortcomings. The proposed law has good provisions for poor children and widows, he added.

(With PTI inputs)