In a bid to create awareness related to the services provided by District legal Services Authority(DlSA) to the last persons of the social strata, a 100-day intensive door to door campaign 'Connecting to Serve' (Vidhik Seva Aapke Dwar) will be started all over the State from November 9.
The initiative is being on the directions of National legal Services Authority (NAlA) aiming to make people aware about the legal services and how one can get benefitted out of it.
"The programme will continue for 100 days during which different teams constituting panel lawyers, Para legal Volunteers and members of NGOs associated with us will visit the people to their door steps and try to create awareness about the legal services available to them," Ranchi DlSA Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh.
A meeting was held with Deputy Commissioner Ranchi where it was decided that Block Development Officers and Circle Officers will cooperate in the campaign and make it a success, he added.
"The team will also distribute pamphlets, literatures, brochures, booklets reflecting about the objectives and activities of legal Services Institutions and try to make people aware about the services provided by DlSA and how it could be contacted through the panel lawyers and PlVs at their place. They will also be made aware about the welfare schemes being run by the State Government," said the DlSA Secretary.
The DlSA further said that the teams during the door to door campaign, the teams will also identify persons who are in need of legal assistance but are unable to approach justice delivery system due to economic or other disabilities.
A data base of such persons prepared by the teams will be prepared and handed over to DlSA so that immediate steps could be taken to provide legal services to the needy persons, he said.
The campaign in Ranchi will start on November 9 from Kanke Block and will be inaugurated by Judicial Commissioner Navneet Kumar.
In addition to that, the Judicial Commissioner cum Chairman DlSA, Ranchi also convened a meeting with representatives of banks located in Ranchi district for discussion on the preparations of National lok Adalat scheduled to be held on December 9. During the meeting, they were asked to create mass awareness about the upcoming National lok Adalat so that maximum number of people could get benefitted out of it.