Overview
- The high-level committee chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai formally handed its three-volume final report to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Monday.
- The panel’s draft law runs to four parts, 404 sections and seven schedules and covers marriage, divorce, maintenance, inheritance, adoption and live-in relationships.
- The committee said it received and analysed more than 9.58 lakh responses from district, state and online consultations that shaped its recommendations.
- A central recommendation is that Scheduled Tribes be excluded from the scope of the proposed code, a decision likely to prompt legal and political scrutiny.
- Next steps are a law-department legal examination, review by a committee of senior secretaries and cabinet consideration before the government aims to table a bill in the assembly session beginning July 20, and the move follows recent state-level UCC efforts such as Uttarakhand’s law.