District legal Services Authority (DlSA) is holding a five-day training programme from June 17 to June 21 at the civil court premises here to make the newly appointed Para legal Volunteers (PlVs) acquainted with the roles to be played by them in future. The PlVs will then go to the villages and make people aware about their legal and social rights.The valedictory session of the five-day programme is to take place from 11 am onwards on June 21.
Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court Virender Singh, Executive Chairman of Jharkhand legal Services Authority Justice DN Patel along with several other dignitaries will be present during the valedictory session of the training programme.“Any law related information which is important for them to know like how to deal with the people, how to talk to them, as well as the information which must be shared with the public, are being told to the PlVs during the training programme,” said DlSA Secretary Rajni Kant Pathak.“Since, the PlVs will be working in their respective fields in their areas, they must have the ideas related to various laws related to criminal laws, property law, family law as well as schemes related to women, children and ST and SCs,” added Pathak.
According to Pathak, the PlVs are also being told about various schemes being run by the Government in the State so that the people even living in the distant rural villages could also get benefits of those schemes by the help of these volunteers.
“PlVs must have all the information regarding each and every law and schemes being run by the state and Central Government so that they can easily propagate it further to the poor and illiterate villagers,” said Pathak. “People from almost all fields, including advocates, Mediation officers, Government officials as well as professors of the law University, were invited to train the PlVs,” he said.After imparting training to them, these PlVs will then will be sent to their respective fields and make people aware about their legal rights. “After hearing their problems, the PlVs will first try to resolve the matter on their own or will refer it to the DlSA for further action,” said Pathak. As many as 50 newly selected PlVs are part in the training programme.“We were basically told how to reach out to those people who are still illiterate and make them aware about their legal rights and make the Government schemes and programmes readily available to them,” said a PlV from Mandar Hariram Karmali. “We were also told about the 29 schemes and programmes for the poor, currently being run by the Government,” added Karmali.