In order to promote legal education and legal vigilance among common man, on the instructions of the National and State legal Services Authority and on the guidelines of district judge and district legal service authority Bilaspur president Gautam Chouradya, legal services clinics have been established at seven villages.
The clinics were opened in the village Kodvabani in Mungeli tehsil, Patgaon in Pendraroad tehsil, Usaad in Marwahi tehsil, Jhaphal in lormi tehsil, Belpan in Takhatpur tehsil, Umaria in Bilha tehsil and Pataita in Kota tehsil on January 24, said in an official statement issued here on Friday.
Under the legal Services Authority Act 1987, legal assistance is a medium of fulfillment of social and economic justice. However, as most of the population of the country reside in villages, they are ignorant of the legal rights.
One panel lawyer and two paralegal volunteers will be appointed in each legal services clinic, which will provide free legal service to people on two appointed days of a week from10.30 am to 5 pm. The clinics will do the works of preparation of drafts of legal service applications, preparation of applications, legal advices, giving information about Chhattisgarh State legal Services Authority Bilaspur and government schemes etc. legal literacy camps will be conducted on weekly market days and on the occasions of Mela etc. The main objective of the legal assistance clinic is to provide service to the plaintiffs to bring legal maturity among them in pending court cases and to establish coordination in government offices and with government officers, to prepare applications for the help of common man etc. It is the free and ambitious scheme of the National legal Services Authority.
In fact, the legal assistance clinic will work as a single window facility for clinical and to sort out problems of people. The panel lawyer and paralegal volunteers will work as the cordial peacemaker for sorting out local disputes among the villagers. In the present contest, the legal services clinics have been established looking to the need of bringing solutions to the problems with the involvement trained professionals, so that the litigants need not to go to courts.