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Fulfilling the BJP’s 2022 election promise, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday said the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will be implemented in Uttarakhand from January 2025.
“All preparations have been completed for this. In this way, Uttarakhand will become the first state to implement the UCC after the independence,” he said. The UCC is already in place in Goa.
During a meeting of Uttarakhand Investment and Infrastructure Development Board (UIIDB) in the Secretariat in Dehradun, the CM Dhami said the state government has completed its homework towards implementing the UCC as per its election promise made few days before the assembly election in 2022.
He said after the formation of the new BJP government in the state in March 2022, in the first meeting of the Cabinet itself, it was decided to constitute an expert committee to implement the UCC in the state. In this sequence, a five-member expert committee was constituted under the chairmanship of retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai. On the basis of the report of the committee, the UCC Bill 2024 was passed by the State Legislative Assembly on February 7 2024. After getting the assent of President Droupadi Murmu on this bill, its notification was issued on March 12, 2024.
After the issuance of the notification, the rules of the UCC Uttarakhand 2024 Act have also been prepared. In this way, Uttarakhand is now fully prepared to implement the UCC from January, the CM said.
The Chief Minister said a portal and mobile app have also been prepared for the UCC so that all the facilities like registration and appeals are done through online.