Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Wednesday that the Uniform Civil Code would be adopted within two weeks. Uttarakhand is the first state to embrace the UCC after independence. The BJP-led government has also developed a portal and a mobile application, believing that “digital measures would make registration, appeal, and other services through the online medium convenient for the people”.
“Uniform Civil Code will be implemented in Uttarakhand from January 2025. Taking a historic step towards making Uttarakhand just and equitable, we have decided to implement the Uniform Civil Code from January 2025. Today, in the UIIDB meeting, necessary instructions were given to the officials on this subject,” Dhami wrote on X.
The CM further said, “While on one hand this step will prove to be a milestone in the direction of strengthening social equality and unity, on the other hand, our state will also emerge as a pathfinder for other states.”
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On March 11, the President approved the Uniform Civil Code, Uttarakhand, 2024 in accordance with Article 201 of the Indian Constitution.
As both men and women will have equal rights in things about marriage and divorce, Dhami had stated that UCC would completely outlaw polygamy, polyandry, halala, iddat, and talaq before Bill’s passage in the Assembly.
If someone is caught committing halala, the UCC stipulates that they could be imprisoned for three years, fined Rs 1 lakh, or both. Additionally, it permits only a man and a woman to be married. It has been decided that boys should marry at the age of 21 and girls should marry at age 18.
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Additionally, marriage and divorce must be registered, or the couple will not be eligible for any government services, according to the UCC Bill. If a husband and wife divorce or have a domestic conflict, the mother will continue to have custody of the kid until the child is five years old.
PM Modi had hailed the Uttarakhand government a few weeks prior for its UCC bill, referring to it as the “Secular Civil Code.”
