5.12.6. Benefits of Uniform Civil Code

♤ All the laws related to marriage, inheritance, family, land etc. would be equal for all Indians.

♤ It will help in improving the condition of women in India. Indian society is patriarchal and by allowing old religious rules to continue to govern the family life, condemns all Indian women to subjugation and mistreatment.

♤ It will help the society move forward and take India towards its goal of becoming a developed nation where women are treated fairly and given equal rights.

♤ The various personal laws have loop holes exploited by those who have the power. Informal bodies like Khap Panchayats continue to give judgments that are against our constitution. Human rights are violated through honor killings and female feticide throughout our country.

♤ It will also help in reducing vote bank politics. If all religions are covered under the same laws, the politicians will have less to offer to communities in exchange of their vote.

♤ It will help in integration of India - A lot of the animosity is caused by preferential treatment by the law of certain religious communities.

♤ This could in time induce custodians of faith to look inwards and seek to codify and reform age-old personal laws in conformity with current modernizing and integrative tendencies or risk losing their flock.