The Maharashtra government has&nbsp;proposed formulation of a separate law for marriages in the&nbsp;Buddhist community, the draft of which will be ready by the&nbsp;end of this month, a senior official said here today.
"The Buddhist community has been demanding a separate law&nbsp;for their marriages from the time Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar&nbsp;converted to Buddhism in Nagpur in 1957," an official from the&nbsp;Social Justice Department told PTI here today.&nbsp;
Marriages of Catholics, Jews, Parsis and Muslims are&nbsp;already covered under the Hindu Marriage Act, but Buddhists&nbsp;are not covered under this Act, he added.&nbsp;
"The proposal for a separate Buddhist marriage act was&nbsp;first put forth by former state cabinet minister Nitin Raut in&nbsp;2007. It came after a Nagpur court deemed the marriage of a&nbsp;Buddhist couple as invalid as it was solemnised as per the&nbsp;Buddhist rituals and there was no specific marriage act for&nbsp;the community," the official added.
Based on Raut's proposal, a committee comprising&nbsp;Principal Secretaries of various departments, including Women&nbsp;and Child Welfare, Law and Judiciary, Social Justice as well&nbsp;as Commissioner of Social Welfare and Chairman of SC/ST&nbsp;Commission was constituted in the same year.
"The state SC/ST Commission chairman (C L Thool) found&nbsp;some discrepancies in Raut's proposal, following which a fresh&nbsp;plan was made. This proposal was discussed by the committee&nbsp;two days back and another meeting is to be held on May 7," the&nbsp;official said.
The proposal will then be finalised by the committee, and&nbsp;will subsequently be put before the general public on the&nbsp;Social Justice Department website for suggestions and&nbsp;objections, he added.
After a designated time, the suggestions/objections will&nbsp;be cleared by the committee and the Bill will then be tabled&nbsp;before the state legislature.&nbsp;
"The draft will be ready by May 31. But it is unlikely&nbsp;that this proposal will be tabled in the monsoon session. But,&nbsp;it is most likely to get tabled in the subsequent session of&nbsp;the Legislature," the official said.

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