Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 2: The committee appointed by the U’khand’s Government to prepare a draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) submitted its report to the Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in function held here today.
The draft report was submitted by the panel headed by retired judge Ranjana Prakash Desai to Chief Minister Dhami.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said that we had promised the people of Uttarakhand State to bring a Uniform Civil Code as per the resolution of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He said that as per our promise, in the first cabinet meeting immediately after the formation of the Government, we had decided to constitute an expert committee to frame a Uniform Civil Code and a five member committee was framed under the leadership of retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai.
Two sub-committees were also formed by the committee, out of which the work of one sub-committee was to prepare the draft of the “Code”. The work of the second sub-committee was to invite suggestions from the residents of the state and also to establish dialogue. The committee started the public dialogue program from the country’s first village Mana and received suggestions from all sections of people in all the districts of the state.
The committee received two lakh thirty two thousand nine hundred sixty one (2,32,961) suggestions through various mediums.
After receiving the report from the committee, CM Dhami, on behalf of the people of the state and the State Government, thanked all the learned members of the committee and hoped that this contribution of the committee members will be a boon not only for the state but for the entire country. Now, the government will move rapidly towards implementing this law.
Chief Secretary Radha Raturi, Secretary R. Meenakshi Sundaram, Vinay Shankar Pandey, Special Secretary Parag Madhukar Dhakate, Uniform Civil Code Member Secretary Ajay Mishra and Director General Information Banshidhar Tiwari were also present during the event.
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