The All Odisha Lawyers’ Association executive body meeting was held here on Sunday under chairmanship of its president Gyana Ranjan Mohanty and general secretary Bibhu Prasad Tripathy.
Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water, Housing and Urban Development and Law Minister Pratap Jena attended as chief guest and assured the association to fulfil its demands presented before the State Government.
Earlier in the meeting, the association demanded a stipend of Rs 7,000 to Rs 10, 000 for young lawyers for the first five years to encourage them to have a good start in the profession, providing Rs five lakh as health insurance to each lawyer, establishing an E-library in each bar association.
The association also demanded allocation of a house in the State capital for smooth running of the association, establishing a guesthouse in the capital to provide accommodation to the lawyers coining from far distances.
The association also placed its demands like looking into the financial condition of the lawyers who are going through a struggling period to have small libraries in their chambers and hoped that the Government would look into the matter.
Going through the demands, the Law Minister said that implementation of a 25-per cent reservation for Odisha students in National Law University Odisha is in progress. He also said that he had discussions with the Chief Minister and again assured that all the demands of the association would be fulfilled which would help the lawyers, including the new practitioners, at large.
The association felicitated Yashashwini Santuka, who scored Odisha rank-1 in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2019.