The Legal Aid Society of National Law University, Odisha, Cuttack (NLUO), in collaboration with Department of Justice Pro Bono Club and Centre for Mediation and Negotiation, organised a mega legal awareness programme and mediation camp under the scheme DISHA.
The program was held at NLUO’s own legal aid clinic at Jankia, Khurdha, with an aim to spread awareness on menstrual hygiene and Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017.
As many as 23 students from the Legal Aid Society of NLU under the leadership of Faculty Advisors DrKuntiraniPadhan, Nikita Pattajoshi and AkshayVerma of NLU created awareness and distributed free sanitary napkins to all the attendees of the programme irrespective of their gender.
As part of the mediation camp, a group of students demonstrated the importance of mediation as a mode of dispute resolution to the attendees and performed a skit. This was followed by a presentation on the changes brought to the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017 and
how women can be benefited, by DhirajBehera, Programme Manager and Debapriya Das, from Shadow, Bhubaneswar, the implementing partner.
The programme was attended by members of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), women members from self-help groups and girl students from a local school.