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Benefits of UCC:
♤ Divest religion from social relations and personal laws, ensuring equality, unity and integrity of the nation and justice to both men and women.
♤ All the laws related to marriage, inheritance, family, land etc. would be equal for all Indians.
♤ Help improve condition of women in India.
♤ Will help society move forward, and take India towards its goal of becoming a developed nation where women are treated fairly and given equal rights.
♤ Various personal laws have loop holes which are exploited by informal bodies like Panchayats etc.
♤ Help reduce vote bank politics-- as politicians will have less to offer to communities in exchange for their votes.
♤ help in integration of India
♤ Could induce custodian of faith to look inwards and seek to codify and reform age old personal laws in conformity with current modernizing and integrative tendencies.
♤ UCC is present in countries like Germany, Italy, Egypt and Turkey.