Dehradun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday said the committee to draft the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state has almost completed its work and it will be introduced soon. contract. “The UCC committee has almost completed its work. We will get the draft soon. The draft is still being typed. Earlier it was in English and now it is being typed in Hindi also. “Different volumes are also being made.” ,” Dhami said while addressing a farmers function organized at the Chief Minister’s residence.
Dhami had said on Friday that the tenure of the expert committee drafting the UCC for the state has been extended by 15 days. “The UCC committee has almost completed its work. A little more time is needed to compile it and complete some other formalities, so the time period has been extended by 15 days. We are going to get the draft soon. As soon as we receive it, we will take further steps and call the assembly session,” Dhami said. The tenure of the committee headed by Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai had been extended thrice earlier, with the latest extension of four months in September last year.
“The Uttarakhand government has extended the tenure of the Expert Committee for Uniform Civil Code by four months,” said a statement from the Chief Minister’s Office on September 23, 2023. The panel was constituted on May 27, 2022 and this is the fourth time the committee has been given an extension. The statement said that after receiving suggestions from the public, the committee has prepared a draft, but the report has not yet been submitted to the government.
UCC was promised to the people of the state before the 2022 assembly elections in Uttarakhand. Article 44 of the Constitution of India states that the State shall endeavor to secure a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) throughout India. The UCC proposes a common set of laws dealing with marriage, inheritance, adoption and other matters.
The UCC, which has been a hot topic over the past four years that has polarized opinions, came to light after Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a strong case for the implementation of a similar law in June last year in an address in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Came at the front. PM Modi said that the country cannot run on two laws and the Uniform Civil Code is in line with the founding principles and ideals of the Constitution.
“Today people are being instigated in the name of UCC. How can the country run on two (laws)? The Constitution also talks about equal rights…the Supreme Court has also asked to implement UCC. These (opposition) people are playing vote bank politics,” PM Modi had said in Bhopal.
