A day-long legal awareness camp was organised jointly by th Dehradun legal Service Authority (DlSA) and the Rural litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RlEK) at Naya Gaon, Sewalakhurd, Dehradun, on Saturday.
The camp was attended by more than 60 participants including villagers and law interns from different universities of India like AMU, Delhi University, OP Jindal Global University, Haryana etc. Its objective was to create awareness on the provision of free legal aid and various laws useful in day-to-day life.
Dharmender Kumar Singh, Civil Judge (Sr Div), Secretary, DlSA explained the villagers about the functioning of DlSA and the provision of free legal aid. He enlightened them on their rights, Constitution of India and how they can become para-legal volunteers. He further explained the villagers on who all can get Free legal Aid ie SC, ST, BPl, women, children, income group less than Rs 1,00,000 and procedure of applying.
The next session was on Consumer Rights by Narender Tripathi, master trainer RlEK followed by a session on Domestic Violence by RlEK’s trainer Dolly Joshi with law intern Chhavi.
The camp had more women participation than men, women showed much more interest than men. Many villagers had issues with low payment by the Government, after land acquisition. They were given insight on the legal procedures by Omar Khan of RlEK’s legal team and DlSA’s secretary.
Arvind Sharma, master trainer RlEK while thanking the villagers and other participants informed that the camp was organised with the initiative of law interns from universities around India.
Chhavi, Unnati, Mansi, Radha, Shivam from Galgotias University, Gr Noida and Aman from VIPS IP University, New Delhi were among the main intern organisers. Social worker Rajiv Puri also attended the camp.