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| Wakf Council meeting held, 20 per cent DA for employees approved | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 10: Minister for Haj and Auqaf Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, who is also the Chairman of State Wakf Council, chaired 13th meeting of State Wakf Council in which various issues of employees were discussed and 20% DA for WAqf employees was sanctioned.
Prominent present in this meeting were Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, Mohammad Yasin Shah and B.A Magray who also show keen interest in deliberating and discussing the issues pertaining to employees.
Addressing the meeting the minister asked the concerned for preparing an inventory of Wakf land and property ensuring its protection and preservation and put to better use.
Calling upon the concerned to work with missionary zeal to protect the property and use the same to create more assets for improving revenue returns, Peerzada said Wakf is both a department and a religious organisation and has a lot of assets which could be utilised for the welfare of community. Peerzada directed constituting sub-committees for all major works and involving locals in the development and maintenance of Muslim Waqf properties and to improve the status of schools being run by Waqf Board and setting-up of Madrassa Board on pattern of other states.
The council accorded sanction to the release of Dearness Allowance (DA) at 20 per cent of the basic pay in favour of regular employees of State Wakf Council, besides special allowance of Rs. 3,000 per head per month in favour of five employees of Shahdara Sharief who have been working in hazardous condition. It also approved the decisions taken in the previous meeting.
During the meeting it was apprised that 1, 02, 840 Kanals Wakf land has been surveyed, of which 85,435 Kanals has been notified while as the notification work on the rest of the surveyed land is under process. "An amount of Rs. 5 lakh was given out to 162 widows and students belonging to poor families, spokesperson said while adding, "Besides beautification of 5- Ziyarats including Panjpeer, Manda, Baba Kanju Peer, Kunjwani, Peer Baba Zahir Ali Shah near Science College Peer Baba Budhan Ali Shah, Satwari and Peer Baba Roshan Shah Wali Gummat has been completed by expending Rs. 2.5 crore and repair work on some other Ziyarats has also been going on."
In addition to fencing of 12 graveyards in Jammu Division; the work on Markazi Jamia Masjid Rajouri is at the final stage on which an amount of Rs. 5 crore would be spent. Members also said Auqaf Islamia R S Pura has generated Rs. 65.24 lakh besides retrieving land measuring over 3 kanals at Ban-Sultan. |
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