New Delhi, Dec. 9 -- The Union minority affairs ministry is preparing to seek Cabinet approval for a Rs.1,000-crore redevelopment blueprint aimed at commercially transforming high-value waqf properties across major Indian cities, even as consolidated data from the Centre's UMEED portal shows that only 216,000 of an estimated 800,00 waqf properties have been fully registered under the new digital regime.

The sharp gap between initiated uploads and completed registrations might trigger a significant wave of tribunal petitions in the coming months, even as the government moves ahead with a national plan to monetise underutilised waqf assets. To be sure, last week, Union minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju said that propoerties can be reg...