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The Uniform Civil Code of Uttarakhand Act, 2024 is a piece of legislation designed to establish a unified set of personal laws governing matters such as marriage, divorce, adoption, inheritance, and maintenance for all citizens of Uttarakhand, irrespective of their religion, gender, caste, or sex. [1] [2] [3]
Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India that was established during the British rule.Based on provisions in the Indian Constitution, it allows the Union Government and the States and Territories of India to allocate a specific percentage of reserved quotas or seats, in higher education admissions, employment, political bodies, etc., for "socially and economically backward citizens".
The 2025 Uttarakhand Municipal general elections [2] [3] were held on 23 January 2025 to elect members of 100 of the 102 regular municipalities [f] in the state. Elections in Kichha and Narendranagar will be held later this year along panchayat elections.
The major regional languages of Uttarakhand are Garhwali, which according to the 2011 census is spoken by 23% of the population, mostly in the western half of the state, Kumaoni, spoken in the eastern half and native to 20%, and Jaunsari, whose speakers are concentrated in Dehradun district in the southwest and make up 1.3% of the state's ...
September 2024) The Scheduled Tribes in Uttarakhand comprise 5 tribes, with a population of 2,91,903, constituting 2.9% of the state's population according to the 2011 census . [ 1 ]
Elections to the local bodies in Uttarakhand, India, are conducted once in five years to elect the representatives to the urban and rural local bodies. These elections are conducted by the Uttarakhand State Election Commission and were mandated by the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act to ensure local government in urban and rural areas.
Constituencies of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The seats of the legislative assembly are at Dehradun and Gairsain, the capitals of the state. The term of the Legislative Assembly is five years, unless dissolved earlier.
Uttarakhand's gross state domestic product for 2024 is estimated at around $40 billion in current prices. Born out of partition of Uttar Pradesh, the new state of Uttarakhand is today around 13 percent of the GSDP of Uttar Pradesh state. The Uttarakhand state is the second fastest growing state in India. [5]