DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 15 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) has written a letter to the Chairman of the Union Law Commission requesting that the State of Nagaland be excluded from purview of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). In a representation, the NTC stated that this must be done so that inalienable provisions of Article 371A remain undisturbed. Nagaland, it said is “wholly a tribal state, and the State came into being under Constitution (13th Amendment) Act, 1962, following an agreement arrived in July 1960 in between the Government of India and the erstwhile Naga People’s Convention.” It added that constitutional protection of Naga social customs and practices are thus enshrined under Article 371A of the Constitution of India, and “the personal and social life of the Nagas both men and women in the state remains well contented under the un-codified social, customs and practices.” Ethically, the NTC said that “our way of life since time immemorial is quite distinct from the people in the mainland of the country, and Uniform Civil Code, if introduced, we shall be subjected to alien culture and social practices by compulsion under the law.”
