No space for Muslim burials in Delhi after one year: DMC | Photo Credit: Thinkstock

New Delhi: A Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) report has sought remedial strategies including land allocation and provision of temporary graves from the Delhi government, various departments and organisations as reportedly, after a year, there will no longer be any space left for burials, funeral rites as performed by the Muslim community, in the national capital.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal released the report on Thursday. Citing a study done by the commission, the report mentioned that against 13,000 Muslim burials that take place in Delhi every year, as many as 29,370 vacancies existed in the graveyards until 2017. The report pointed out that there will be no space left a year from now, going by the present pace unless some remedial measures are adopted.

Out of the 704 Muslim graveyards in the city, only 131 are functional. The report further mentioned that out of those 131, 43 have been encroached upon by different agencies and 17 are non-operation on account of litigation. Most of the graveyards measure less than 10 bighas and 46% of the total measure even lesser than 5 bighas.

In the recent past, only a very few were developed despite the growing need owing to the population growth led to by immigration and natural growth. The study reportedly recommended temporary ‘kutcha’ graves that allow re-burial at the same spot after a few years and removing encroachments for the development of new graveyards.

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