Registration under Uttarakhand UCC ‘solely to preserve demography, enrich database’, says drafting committee member

The connection comes 2 weeks aft the state authorities rolled retired rules nether the UCC. Among different things, the instrumentality aims to grounds marriages, divorces, and live-in relationships, sparking fears of imaginable motivation policing among immoderate sections.

Uttarakhand is the archetypal authorities successful India to person a codified instrumentality connected UCC.

According to Dangwal, UCC “does not confer immoderate other benefits” connected domiciled individuals.

“The criteria for imperishable residency successful Uttarakhand stay unchanged, and this was ne'er a taxable of treatment earlier the UCC committee,” she said. “The purpose is simply to modulate idiosyncratic laws to guarantee that Uttarakhand’s nine and civilization are preserved, frankincense securing the demographic operation of the state. Moreover, it volition assistance support transgression elements successful check”.

She besides allayed fears of registrations of live-in relationships successful the state. According to Dangwal, documents submitted for live-in narration registration nether UCC volition beryllium verified solely astatine the registrar’s level.

“When a live-in narration exertion is received, the registrar volition electronically supply a specified grounds of the narration connection to the section constabulary presumption successful complaint done the District Superintendent of Police. Access to this record, including for the section constabulary presumption officer, volition beryllium strictly nether the supervision of the District Superintendent of Police,” she said, adding that the regulations explicitly authorities that erstwhile sharing accusation with the police, the registrar indispensable intelligibly notation that the details related to the live-in narration connection are being provided solely for record-keeping purposes.

This comes astatine a clip erstwhile immoderate right-wing outfits person said they were “aware” of the interfaith couples among registrants and were “on the lookout for unsafe cases”, though authorities person denied this was the case.

Uttarakhand asks universities to clasp workshops connected UCC

Meanwhile, the Uttarakhand Home Department has written to assorted universities asking them to organise workshops “to supply teachers, students and unit with a wide knowing of the act”.

Addressing the vice-chancellors of Doon, Kumaon, Sri Dev Suman, Uttarakhand Mukt, and Soban Singh Jeena universities successful the state, the location caput Shailesh Bagoli said that the workshops request to beryllium organised to rise consciousness astir the law.

“To rise consciousness astir the significance, provisions, and societal and ineligible implications of the UCC, a store needs to beryllium organised astatine your university. The superior nonsubjective of this store is to supply teachers, students, and applicable officials/employees with a wide knowing of the UCC, its implementation process, and the associated ineligible and administrative aspects,” the letters state.

It further instructed the VCs to inquire applicable departments and taxable experts successful organising this store astatine the university. “Additionally, delight hole a elaborate docket for the store and guarantee its timely execution. A transcript of the Uniform Civil Code (both successful brushed transcript and print) is enclosed with this letter. You are kindly requested to stock it with each applicable departments and participants to facilitate the store with indispensable notation materials,” it stated.