GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE

LOK SABHA

UNSTARREDQUESTION NO: 2471

ANSWERED ON: 10.03.2011

UNIFORM CIVIL CODE

(a) whether the Government is considering to enforce uniform civil code for national uniformity and harmony in the country; 

(b) if so, the details thereof; and 

(c) if not, the reasons therefor ? 

ANSWER

MINISTER OF LAW AND JUSTICE (DR. M. VEERAPPA MOILY) 

 (a) No, Madam. 

 (b) Does not arise. 

 (c) Bringing in a Uniform Civil Code involves changes in the Personal Laws including those of the minority communities. Therefore, it has been the consistent policy of the Central Government not to interfere in the Personal laws of the minority communities unless the necessary initiatives for such changes come from a sieable cross-section of such communities themselves.