In the midst of a special four-day session, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami introduced the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill in the state Assembly on Tuesday.
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Uttarakhand will be the first post-independence state to adopt the UCC once it is put into effect. It has been in use in Goa since the time of Portuguese domination.
The UCC, as its name implies, advocates uniform civil laws for all communities within the state, regardless of caste or religion. If approved, this would give the people of the state a uniform legal framework for laws pertaining to inheritance, land, divorce, and marriage.
Once it’s in place, other states will probably follow suit. Formerly, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma made it known in public that his state also intended to adopt it. It is also likely to be used as a model for the national implementation of UCC, and Gujarat is probably going to follow suit according to The Indian Express