A meeting of the presidents and secretaries of the all Bar Associations of the State was held here on Tuesday.
Senior lawyer and president of the Bhubaneswar Bar Association Nirmal Kishore Rath presided. The meeting discussed in detail the various problems of the State lawyers.
It was decided that efforts would be made through an action committee to address the various problems of lawyers. Similarly, it was decided that the High Court would be requested to facilitate bar association halls, libraries etc for lawyers where new courts are opened and every bar association in Odisha would file a case in the High Court for the State Bar Council elections. It was also demanded that the Government bring a law to protect the lawyers and implement a health insurance scheme of Rs 5 lakh for them. Among others, the meeting was attended by Bhubaneswar Bar Association secretary Raj Kishore Das, vice president Devidatta Barik, joint secretary Ashok Badpanda, treasurer Lingaraj Maharana, assistant secretary Shiva Narayan Sahoo, Abhijit Mishra, Antaryami Biswal, Suresh Kumar Das, Narayan Jena and Lina Pattanayak. Representatives from 30 districts attended the meeting.