{"id":220392,"date":"2023-07-14T00:38:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T19:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=220392"},"modified":"2023-07-14T00:38:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T19:08:59","slug":"keep-arunachal-out-of-ucc-purview-aitf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/07\/14\/keep-arunachal-out-of-ucc-purview-aitf\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Arunachal out of UCC purview: AITF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 13 Jul:<\/strong> The Arunachal Indigenous Tribes Forum (AITF), a conglomeration of 26 major tribal communities, has requested the Law Commission of India to keep the state out of the purview of implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a letter to the commission, the AITF said that the northeastern state with 26 major tribes and over 100 sub-tribes has distinct tribal cultures, traditions, dialects, belief system and ethos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is constitutional protection given to Arunachal Pradesh&#8217; social system, customary laws and customary rights and these should continue, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8230; we have no objection to the implementation of UCC in the mainland of the country, except in Arunachal Pradesh, because of its unique demography and topography and its prevailing social system&#8230; (The state) should be kept outside the purview of UCC implementation,&#8221; the letter said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UCC refers to a common set of laws on marriage, divorce and inheritance that would be applicable to all Indian citizens, irrespective of religion, tribe or other local customs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Law Commission had on 14 June initiated a fresh consultation process on UCC by seeking views from stakeholders, including public and recognised religious organisations, on the politically sensitive issue. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 13 Jul: The Arunachal Indigenous Tribes Forum (AITF), a conglomeration of 26 major tribal communities, has requested the Law Commission of India to keep the state out of the purview of implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). In a letter to the commission, the AITF said that the northeastern state with 26 major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}