Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Context: Focus on gender equality, raising the marriageable age of women to 21, equal rights for daughters in ancestral properties, legal rights for LGBTQ couples and registration of live-in relationships. are some of the suggestions an expert committee, constituted by Uttarakhand to examine issues relating to the implementation of […]
UNIFORM CIVIL CODE (UCC) TOPIC: Polity Context- Uttarakhand’s Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s announced that the BJP, if voted to power, will form a committee to prepare a draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the State. Concept- UCC in States: UCC is one that would provide for one law for the […]
UNIFORM CIVIL CODE (UCC) TOPIC: Polity Context-The new Law Commission could take up the issue of Uniform Civil Code. Concept- Uniform Civil Code: UCC is one that would provide for one law for the entire country, applicable to all religious communities in their personal matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption etc. Article […]