Waqf Amendment Act 2025 Explained- Bill's key proposals and what Supreme Court ruled News24 -

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Additionally, the top court has also stayed the provision of Waqf Act which empowered a Collector to determine whether a property declared as Waqf is a government property and pass orders.
52% : Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, also called as the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency, and Development Act, 2025, states to remove waqf by user and allows formation only through declaration or endowment.
49% : It gave rights to the Collector to resolve ownership disputes, who is required to submit a report to the state government.
48% : However, MPs, former judges, and eminent persons appointed to the Council as per the Act need not be Muslims.
46% : While for Waqf Boards Composition, the bill empowers the state government to nominate one person from each background to the Board and they need not be Muslims.
44% : The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 aims to update the Waqf Act, 1995 to fix issues in the management of Waqf properties.
39% : Some of the issues that were identified in the Waqf Act, 1995 were irrevocability of Waqf Properties, legal disputes and poor management, illegal occupation of Waqf land, mismanagement and ownership disputes, delays in property registration and surveys, large-scale litigation cases and complaints to the Ministry.

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