Representative image of a marriage.
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New Delhi: Based on the law passed by the state assembly, Uttarakhand will soon have a single-window digital web portal for the registration of marriages, live-in relationships, wills and succession instruments.
The provisions are part of the rules drafted by the UCC implementation committee headed by former bureaucrat Shatrughan Singh who held its final meeting in Dehradun.
“We have recommended means and methods wherein someone sitting at home is able to draft and even change one’s will and succession online,” Manu Gaur, a member of the UCC rules drafting committee told DH.
The Uttarakhand UCC web portal will be integrated into other government websites to enable it to pick up data on marriages, deaths, birth and divorces.
The bill to implement UCC in Uttarakhand was passed by the BJP government in the state just ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The bill got presidential assent earlier this year as Uttarakhand became the first state in the country to implement UCC.
The draft rules finalised by the UCC committee will now be sent to the Pushkar Singh Dhami government for notification.