Saturday, 01 July 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The chairperson of the expert committee on Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Justice (Retd) Ranjana Prakash Desai said in New Delhi on Friday that the committee has prepared the draft of UCC and it would be submitted to the Uttarakhand government soon.
She said that committee held its first meeting on July 4, 2022 and since then it has met 63 times. Justice Desai said that a sub-committee was constituted last year to elicit public opinion by inviting written submissions as well as by organising public dialogue programs. “The sub-committee began its public outreach programme from the border tribal village Mana and visited 40 different places in the State covering all the districts, which culminated in a public discussion in Delhi on June 14 this year with participation from the residents of Uttarakhand staying in the National Capital Region. The sub- committee met 143 times in Dehradun and other places,’’ she said.
“The Committee has painstakingly taken into account all shades of opinions and looked into the various statutes and uncodified laws including the statutory framework in select countries. Besides, the Committee has tried to understand the finer nuances of the various customary practices that prevail in different parts of the State,’’ Justice Desai added.
