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Karnataka topped the list with registrations for 81% of its 65,242 properties, followed by Jammu & Kashmir (77%), Punjab (90%) and Gujarat (61%). West Bengal recorded the lowest compliance, with only 716 registrations, less than 1% of its 80,480 properties.

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Only about 27% of India’s roughly 800,000 waqf properties have been registered on the government’s new UMEED portal after a nationwide deadline expired, according to data released this week.

Just 216,000 properties were uploaded to the platform, which was launched in June under the Waqf (Amendment) Act to build a centralised, geo-tagged database aimed at improving transparency and oversight of waqf land.

Karnataka topped the list with registrations for 81% of its 65,242 properties, followed by Jammu & Kashmir (77%), Punjab (90%) and Gujarat (61%). West Bengal recorded the lowest compliance, with only 716 registrations, less than 1% of its 80,480 properties. The state government had resisted rolling out the amended law for months before directing officials last week to begin uploading records.

Uttar Pradesh, which accounts for the country’s largest portfolio of waqf land, including 240,000 properties held by separate Sunni and Shia boards, recorded registrations for just 11% of Sunni properties and 5% of Shia properties. Maharashtra uploaded 48% of its 36,700 properties.

The minority affairs ministry said registration activity picked up sharply toward the deadline. Even so, more than 213,000 applications submitted by mutawallis, or property managers, remain pending, while nearly 11,000 have been rejected during verification.

Karnataka Waqf Board chairman Syed Muhammad Ali Al Hussaini said the state completed the process in a “highly structured manner”, adding that the Supreme Court’s directions had accelerated the work.

Officials and mutawallis in several states reported repeated portal crashes, gaps in documentation for older properties and discrepancies in local land measurement systems, prompting complaints from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which has sought an urgent meeting with the minority affairs ministry.

On Friday, Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju announced a three-month penalty-free window for those who missed the deadline. Applicants may seek additional time from state waqf tribunals, which are empowered to grant extensions.

India has about 880,000 waqf properties nationwide, with major holdings in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.