Chief secretary seeks regular course on training government personnel on UCC
PNS | DEHRADUN
The married employees of the State government will register their marriages under the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). In a related development the Uttarakhand Academy of Administration will also train the State government personnel in the UCC.
Chief secretary Radha Raturi has written to all the district magistrates directing them to ensure the marriage registration of all married State government employees under the UCC. She has stated in her letter that as per the UCC, the registration of marriages solemnised after March 26, 2010 is compulsory. Considering this, the district nodal officer for UCC will ensure all married State government personnel in the district register their marriage in a time bound manner. Every district will also provide a report regularly to the Home secretary in this regard.
Raturi further said that the additional chief secretary/principal secretary/secretary of all departments should appoint one nodal officer who will ensure the registration of the department’s married personnel under the UCC. Similarly, all the department heads should direct their subordinate married employees to register their marriage on the UCC portal. All the district magistrates and heads of departments will ensure that this task is completed in a time bound manner. A weekly report on this should be sent to the State’s Home secretary, she said. The chief secretary further directed the Information Technology Development Agency director to provide necessary technical assistance to all districts or departments for ensuring uninterrupted registration of marriages on the UCC portal.
Raturi also wrote a letter to the Uttarakhand Academy of Administration, Nainital, director general to conduct a regular course for training the State government personnel in provisions of the UCC. She stated that in order to ensure the effective implementation of the UCC, it is important for all the government employees to know about its various provisions, procedures and their responsibilities. The academy can play an important role in this. It can develop a group of resource persons for the training on UCC provisions. These resource persons will train the officers and employees of the various departments. The chief secretary has stated in her letter that the academy should consider including a training programme on UCC as part of its regular course so that government employees at various levels can be trained in it from time to time. An elaborate training module comprising the legal and administrative aspects of the UCC, responsibilities of government officers, registration procedures and the use of the portal should also be prepared, Raturi said.
