Dehradun : The five-member committee headed by justice (retired) Ranjana Prakash Desai, formed to present a report on UCC, is expected to submit this on February 2
The Uttarakhand government has convened a session of the legislative assembly from February 5 to discuss the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state, people familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity.
The state government issued a statement Friday that confirmed that the house has been summoned on Monday, 5 February but did not provide any other details.
The five-member committee headed by justice (retired) Ranjana Prakash Desai, formed to present a report on UCC, is expected to submit this on February 2. The committee’s term ended on January 26 but HT learns that it has been given an extension of two weeks.
UCC refers to a common set of laws that will subsume customary laws across faiths and tribes and govern issues such as marriage, divorce, inheritance and maintenance. In the run-up to the state assembly elections in February 2022 , chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami had announced that implementation of UCC would be the first decision of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government if voted to power.
