Personal Laws Promoting Reform from Within

In the face of the enormous difficulties implicit in the enactment of a uniform civil code, the appropriate course would be for the communities themselves to undertake to rationalise those aspects of their personal laws which stand in conflict with constitutional provisions or fail to pass the test of equity, justice and good conscience. Both, the initiative for reform as well as the creation of institutional structures for building consensus over such reform have to come from within the different communities.