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JPC recommends setting up durgah committee, airport at Ajmer
New Delhi, Dec 22: The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the functioning of Waqf boards has recommended the early establishment of an airport at Ajmer and a railway line upto Pushkar keeping in view the large number of pilgrims from India and abroad visiting the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti.
New Delhi, Dec 22: The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the functioning of Waqf boards has recommended the early establishment of an airport at Ajmer and a railway line upto Pushkar keeping in view the large number of pilgrims from India and abroad visiting the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti.
The 30-member committee, headed by Sangh Priya Gautam, which went through the functioning of Durgah Khwaja Saheb, Ajmer, also recommended that there should be a 15-member durgah committee comprising of three MPs (two from Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha), two MLAs from Rajasthan, one representative each of Sajjadanashin, Khadims, Ulema, technocrats or professionals and legal experts. The members of the durgah committee should be Hanafi Muslims, it said adding that the tenure of the committee should be of three years.
The committee, which met on December 17th and adopted the report, had decided to present a separate report on amendment to the Durgah Khwaja Saheb Act, 1955, in the near future.
The report was presented in Rajya Sabha on December 20th.
The committee was of the view that there should be an executive committee in place of advisory committee which should consist of four to five members of the durgah committee, a representative of state government, divisional commissioner, district magistrate, Superintendent of Police, a representative of local Muslims, representative of municipal or civic body, a local MP, local MLA, Ulemas and eminent Muslims.
Bureau Report
The 30-member committee, headed by Sangh Priya Gautam, which went through the functioning of Durgah Khwaja Saheb, Ajmer, also recommended that there should be a 15-member durgah committee comprising of three MPs (two from Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha), two MLAs from Rajasthan, one representative each of Sajjadanashin, Khadims, Ulema, technocrats or professionals and legal experts. The members of the durgah committee should be Hanafi Muslims, it said adding that the tenure of the committee should be of three years.
The committee, which met on December 17th and adopted the report, had decided to present a separate report on amendment to the Durgah Khwaja Saheb Act, 1955, in the near future.
The report was presented in Rajya Sabha on December 20th.
The committee was of the view that there should be an executive committee in place of advisory committee which should consist of four to five members of the durgah committee, a representative of state government, divisional commissioner, district magistrate, Superintendent of Police, a representative of local Muslims, representative of municipal or civic body, a local MP, local MLA, Ulemas and eminent Muslims.
Bureau Report