The state government said the draft UCC is ready and will be presented in a day or two.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami (File Photo: ANI)
The Uttarakhand government will soon call an assembly session to enact the much-talked-about Uniform Civil Code (UCC).
The state government said the draft UCC is ready and will be presented in a day or two.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said a special committee assigned the task of drafting the Uniform Civil Code has completed its report and would soon present it to him. “I have been informed that a five-member special committee formed under the leadership of retired Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prasad Desai has completed its draft report on UCC. I am happy to inform you that the committee will soon submit the draft to the government in a day or two. No sooner than it happens we will call an assembly session to enact the law,” said Dhami at a function in Roorkee on Thursday.
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He said Uttarakhand voters gave a mandate in the 2022 assembly polls for the UCC against the state’s tradition of no repeat of the governments. “We will give the people of Uttarakhand the first uniform civil code common to all cutting across the barriers of the social and religious divide,” Dhami said.
It is significant to note that Dhami had promised the UCC for the people of Uttarakhand on the eve of the 2022 assembly elections in Uttarakhand. After forming a government for the second time, he constituted an expert panel led by Justice Desai in May 2022 to draft UCC for Uttarakhand.
The committee was mandated to examine the relevant laws regulating personal civil matters of Uttarakhand people and prepare a draft UCC law as to marriage, divorce, property rights, succession, inheritance, adoption, maintenance, custody, and guardianship.
The UCC expert panel was asked to submit the report within six months but the government had to extend its deadline thrice in the last one and a half years.
“Uttarakhand will set a trend and example for other states to implement UCC for their people” added Uttarakhand chief minister.
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