AMN / WEB DESK
A draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) prepared by state government-appointed panel was submitted to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in Dehradon today.
The draft was handed over to the Chief Minister by the five-member committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai.
Soon after the submission of the UCC, Dhami said, “It is yet another step towards the fulfilment of a commitment made to the people of the state during the run-up to the Assembly polls held in the state in 2022.”
Dhami said after getting a historic mandate of the people for a second consecutive term in office, his Cabinet decided to constitute a committee to draft the UCC at its very first meeting to initiate the process of fulfilling that commitment.
“The panel, which consists of erudite people, held a comprehensive dialogue with people representing different sections of the society, including the tribal people of the country’s first village of Mana, before finalising the draft,” he said.
Mana is a village located in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand near the India-China border.