
Goa-Conscious-Planning Action plan – 2 month update visual
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India is a diverse country with different religions and customs. Religion has been an essential part of the country’s culture. Both religious secularism and tolerance coexist in India. The religious customs in the form of different personal laws co-existed with the core idea of secularism. However, the application of a uniform civil code has been an idea of the founding fathers of the Indian constitution who had the vision of separating the religion from the state and ensuring secularism in the true sense.
Although the UCC is included as a directive principle of state policy and over the 73 years it has not been implemented in the whole of India. Due to the resistance on religious grounds, the government has been unable to fulfill this mandate. Goa is the only state in India with a uniform civil code that governs all the citizens alike despite their religion.
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