Saturday, 28 January 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Govt likely to table bills for UCC, reservation to statehood activists
The Uttarakhand government has convened a four day session of State assembly from February 5. The State government is likely to table a bill on Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the session. The session will be in continuation of the adjourned session of the assembly on September 8, 2023. In the session the bill for granting 10 per cent horizontal reservations to the statehood activists in the government jobs will also be tabled.
It is learnt that the expert committee on the UCC will submit its report to the chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in the next two to three days. The committee has prepared the draft and is learnt to be working on Hindi translation of the draft which is expected to be completed soon. Recently CM Dhami had said that a session of the State assembly will be convened when the State government receives the report and the UCC will be implemented in the State.
On January 25, the State government gave an extension of 15 days to the tenure of the expert committee headed by Justice ( Retd) Ranajana Prakash Desai .
After statements of the CM and his eagerness on the issue suggests that Uttarakhand is on its way to become the only State in the country apart from Goa to have its own UCC.
It is pertinent to mention here that the BJP had made a pre poll promise of implementing UCC in the State in the run-up for the assembly elections of 2022. Soon after assuming charge CM Dhami constituted an expert committee on UCC in the very first meeting of the state cabinet. The expert committee constituted on May 27, 2022 is headed by retired justice Ranjana Prakash Desai. Justice (retd) Pramod Kohli, social worker Manu Gaur, former chief secretary of Uttarakhand Shatrughan Singh and vice chancellor of Doon University Surekha Dangwal are the members of the committee. The committee has been mandated to examine all existing and relevant laws regarding marriage, divorce, right for property, inheritance, adoption and protection for implementation of UCC in the state.
