Uttarakhand Cabinet clears Uniform Civil Code bill, to be tabled in Assembly on Tuesday

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Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami-led Uttarakhand Cabinet on Sunday passed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) bill following the recommendations made by a high-level government-appointed committee...

The bill, aimed at bringing uniformity in civil laws, will now be tabled in the Uttarakhand Assembly on February 6 (Tuesday), sources told India Today TV...

The bill was passed during a Cabinet meeting chaired by Dhami at his residence in Dehradun...

The draft of the Uniform Civil Code bill for the hill state was handed over to the Chief Minister by the five-member committee headed by retired Supreme Court Judge Ranjana Prakash Desai...

If passed on February 6 in the Assembly, Uttarakhand will become the first state of the country after Independence to adopt the Uniform Civil Code...

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