The Principal District and Sessions Judge (PDJ) Palamu civil court KK Srivastava Friday took the first printed copy out of the Voice-Based legal Information Kiosk in the civil court.
The PDJ put his thumb on one button of the kiosk and it became operational for the people here. The PDJ was accompanied by the district judge one Anil K Singh and a manager special projects One World Foundation India Vasundhra Joshi. Vasundhra is monitoring the kiosk. She is to oversee this project in two States Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh.
Outlining its special features the PDJ Srivastava said “With this kiosk now operational any person can have legal information on 12 core issues by way of either hearing the information or having a copy of it or both all absolutely free. No audio set is required if one wants to hear only the legal information. The screen is sharp and wide for reading the same,” said Srivastava.
Srivastava showed the Pioneer as to how if one wants to hear the legal information on scheduled caste and scheduled tribe matter can have direct access to what he requires and for which there are two para legal volunteers to assist the person.
K K Jha the secretary of the Palamu legal services authority said two lady para-legal volunteers have been put on this job for a contractual period of seven months and the two will get 250 rupees per day.
The legal information is to be heard or read or both in two languages Hindi and Santhali said Srivastava.
Vasundhra Joshi said Jharkhand state has 25 such kiosks one at Tenughat also in addition to one at Bokaro civil court. In the second leg of the drive for access to justice the neighbouring State Chhattisgarh will be taken up, added Vasundhra.
The kiosk has been set up on the ground floor of the civil court to enable the people to reach it without any problem. Srivastava said the district legal services authority will further give a touch up for the comfort of the visitor to this kiosk.
As the kiosk is on the ground floor near the staircase as the civil court Palamu is a two-storyed building which is always a traffic of clients, litigants and lawyers and thus the level of noise is there to which the PDJ said “Since this is the first day of its getting operational and hence more curious people are flocking it and talking about this kiosk.” He added that this location will be as peaceful as any other in this court building. The kiosk in Hindi reads as Nayaya Path.