Uniform Civil Code

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What is Uniform Civil Code?

Uniform civil code is set of laws created for all peoples of country irrespective of their caste or religion, on the aspect of marriage, divorce, adoption, inheritance, succession and maintenance.

This law is not active in India as of today. Many states has implemented its improve or change version.

Indian people follow the legal pluralism, means more than two laws working. Every religion has their own laws for marriage aspects like Hindu Marriage Act, Muslim Personal Law, Christian Succession Act etc.

The main idea behind the Uniform civil code is to replace all this laws with uniform same law for various issues on marriage, divorce like issues.

What is the Constituitional Basis of UCC?

According to the constituition of India, UCC is a Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP) of Article 44. It simply means that this is just a goal for the government to implement but is not able to enforced everywhere by using the courts.

Why people oppose UCC?

There are many reasons of why people opposes UCC. Some of them are mentioned below,

  1. Fear of losing the religious freedom – to perform rituals
  2. People consider it threat to their rituals, customes and traditions
  3. Some state implement UCC with strict policy to live in relationship peoples, to register themselves. People consider it violation of adults right of privacy.

What is the benefit of UCC?

  • It provide equal inheritance of property to daughter and son
  • It banned polygamy marriage (one men marry multiple women)
  • It make divorce and alimony process standardized for every women regardless of their religion.
  • It makes the age for marriage is 18 for women and 21 for men strictly for all the people irrespecting of religion.
  • It make easy for everyone like common people and even for the courts it became easy for dealing with matters when there is single law governing, compared to different laws.
  • It make the child adoption process easier and standardized.

There are many states that have implement the UCC like goa, uttarakhand, gujrat and assam. However they have not implement fully and made their draft for their state. Other states also have been preparing their draft for UCC to implement.

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