UCC draft for Uttarakhand ready, proposals will empower women, strengthen secular fabric: Panel head Ranjana Desai
Uniform Civil Code for Uttarakhand is complete, Justice (retired) Ranjana Prakash Desai said on Friday, and added the recommendations of the committee headed by her will empower women and strengthen secular fabric of society if implemented. She also asserted that the idea of a common civil code has received «overwhelming» support. Hours after Desai said that the draft is ready to be submitted to the state government, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said the Uniform Civil Code will soon be implemented in Uttarakhand.
Desai, who heads the committee of experts set up by the Uttarakhand government last year, said the panel has drafted the code taking into account all shades of opinions and looking into various statutes and uncodified laws, including the statutory framework in select countries. «Our emphasis is to ensure gender equality, with keeping women, children and disabled persons in focus. We have tried to bring everyone on an equal footing with elimination of arbitrariness and discrimination,» she told reporters, adding that the committee has studied existing laws in various countries, including Muslim nations.
«We have seen everything, studied personal laws. We have also studied the Law Commission's report. If you read our draft you will feel that the committee has considered everything,» she said.
The draft, if implemented, «will strengthen the secular fabric of our country.» Desai said the committee had held its first meeting on July 4 last year in Delhi and since then, the committee has met 63 times. Besides, the committee has tried to understand the «finer nuances» of the various customary practices that prevail in different parts of Uttarakhand. «It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that the drafting of
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