Jurisdiction Government of Pakistan | ||
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Headquarters 9 Court Street, Lahore 54000, Punjab, Pakistan Agency executive Saddique-ul-Farooq, Chairman Website | ||
Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), is a statutory board of the Government of Pakistan, is a key Government Department which administers evacuee properties attached to educational, charitable or religious trusts left behind by Hindus & Sikhs who migrated to India after partition. It also maintain and upkeep places of worship belonging to Hindus and Skihs Pakistan.
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Board and Institutionalized Discrimination
The ETPB is governed by a board, most members including chairman are all Muslims with token representation to Hindus and Sikhs whose property this trust manages, giving rise to criticism for religious discrimination and apathy.
Properties
The board controls and manages 109404 acres of agricultural land and 46499 of built-up urban sub-units in accordance with two schemes namely, “Scheme for the Lease of Evacuee Trust Agricultural Land, 1975” and “Schemes for the Management and Disposal of Urban Evacuee Trust Properties, 1977. (Evacuee Trust Properties essentially are the properties attached to charitable, religious or educational trust or institutions.
Healthcare
The board runs the Janki Devi Jamiat Singh hospital and seven health centers.
Educational Institutes
The trust uses the income from this Hindu board, to not fun Hindu institutes, but to fund Muslim institutes named below:
Criticism
946 acres of land worth Rs 5 billion owned by the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) were silently transferred to private individuals by officials of the provincial revenue department.
The ETPB is governed by a board, most members including chairman are all Muslims with token representation to Hindus and Sikhs whose property this trust manages, giving rise to criticism for religious discrimination and apathy. Even the institutes that are funded by the income of this Hindu properties have been given Muslim names. Official website shows no protected Hindu shrine. Income from these properties is rarely spent on Hindu shrines. Many Hindu temples have been rented to Muslims who desecrate and vandalize the temples by using those animal pens and shops, etc. None of the educational institutes funded by the board have Hindu or Sikh names, the all are Islamic though funded by the income of Hindu and Sikh property. Board has become an institutionalized place to take away the income of Hindu and Sikh properties, to grab property and squander away in corruption and on Islamic institutes, very little is done to protect, restore Hindu and Sikh shrines and temples or to build Hindu and Sikh educational institutes. Board has become a way to take away Hindu and Sikh income to spend on Islamic institutes and to steal through corruption while Hindu and Sikh properties are encroached upon, systematically desecrated and destroyed. There is demand to reconstitute the board with only Hindu and Sikh members, staff it with only Hindu and Sikh employees, grant it higher powers, stop leakage of income to Islamic institutes, its corrupt officials are given more responsibility despite being caught out.