Uttarakhand
UCC before Uttarakhand's Foundation Day
- 05 Aug 2024
- 1 min read
Why in News?
Recently, the Uttarakhand Chief Minister declared that his state will implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) before Foundation Day (9th November 2024).
Key Points
- The UCC Bill was introduced in the state legislative assembly on 6th February 2024 and was passed on 7th February 2024 during a special session of the Uttarakhand assembly.
- It was proposed in India to establish uniform rules for personal matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, and property rights applying to all citizens equally irrespective of their religion, gender or sexual orientation.
- The proposed law has 392 sections divided into four parts and seven chapters providing equal rights to women in marriage, divorce, alimony and inheritance of property, proscribes certain kinds of relationships, bans polygamy, sets the marriageable age for men and women (21 years and 18 years respectively), and makes registration of marriages mandatory.
- The state's Scheduled Tribe population which comprises 2.89% of the population are exempted from this law.
