Uttarakhand Cabinet approves UCC rules ahead of rollout. Here’s what they say

Once it’s rolled out, Uttarakhand volition go the archetypal authorities to instrumentality the UCC.

Leaving the State Secretariat aft the Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said: “We had announced successful 2022 that our archetypal enactment volition beryllium UCC aft the authorities is formed. The committee framed the draught and it was passed with the President’s assent. The grooming is successful the last stages and we volition soon denote the dates for the implementation… We person discussed the rules today”.

On January 13, Uttarakhand authorities began grooming its officials to assistance familiarise them with the UCC portal.

Officials said online portals person been developed for citizens and officials, featuring Aadhaar-based verification, AI-based translation services successful 22 Indian languages, and information integration crossed much than 13 departments/services (e.g., birth-death registrations, district/high courts, etc.). These portals are cloud-based and equipped with catastrophe betterment systems.

A connection from the authorities said: “The authorities has acceptable abstracted fees for expedited registration nether the Tatkal service. The registration and termination process for live-in relationships has besides been simplified. Termination applications by 1 spouse volition necessitate confirmation from the different partner. In testamentary succession, wills tin beryllium uploaded connected the portal for online registration, modification, revalidation, oregon revival”.

Extensive grooming programs are being conducted for the effectual implementation of these provisions, the connection said.

“A state-wide mock drill is scheduled for January 21. Additionally, the people is to bid 10,000 colony improvement officers (VDO) nether the CSC strategy by January 24, 2025. District-wise nodal officers person been appointed, and a helpline has been established to code portal-related queries. For ineligible queries, district-level prosecution section officers person been designated,” it further said.

Apart from the portal, the authorities authorities has authorised Common Service Centres (CSCs) to facilitate online registration. In distant and mountainous areas wherever net entree is limited, CSC agents volition supply door-to-door services to guarantee that citizens tin avail of these facilities.

In agrarian areas, Village Panchayat Development Officers person been appointed arsenic sub-registrars to supply registration services astatine the section level, ensuring easier entree for agrarian citizens.

The UCC portal has options for 3 stakeholders to log successful – the citizens, work centre staff, and officials. Aadhaar details are required for signing up.

The database of services the portal offers includes registration of marriage, divorce, and live-in registrations, termination of live-in relationships, intestate succession and declaration of ineligible heirs, testamentary successions, entreaty successful cases wherever exertion is rejected, entree to information, and ailment registration.

A five-member adept sheet was formed to framework a report, led by retired justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, and based connected this, the Uniform Civil Code Bill, 2024, was passed successful the Assembly connected February 7, 2024. The Act was notified connected March 12, 2024, aft assent from the President. Though the committee formed to gully up rules for implementing UCC submitted its study to the authorities connected October 18 and the authorities planned to person the UCC successful spot earlier November 9, the state’s 24th Foundation Day, this could not hap arsenic the grooming of unit was not yet complete.