In a historical event, legal literacy clubs in 500 tribal schools across Jharkhand will be inaugurated by Governor Droupadi Murmu on Saturday from Kasturba Gandhi School in Mandar, 30 km from the State Capital.
Talking to media persons, Justice DN Patel, Executive Chairman of Jharkhand State legal Services Authority (JHAlSA), said that concept of legal literacy Club is to impart knowledge of basic laws of the land, fundamental rights and fundamental duties as well as the basic values and ethics enshrined in our Constitution.
"It will be historical event for the whole country where as many as 40 schools will be visible on a huge screen set up at Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya in Mandar at a time and the Governor will inaugurate legal literacy clubs in all the 500 tribal schools on-line in one go," said Justice Patel. A team of limca Book of Records has also arrived here with their set up on the request made by JHAlSA to record the event, he added.’
"Each legal literacy Club will have 250 sets of books comprising of 36 books each, making a total of 45 lakh books to be distributed among the students free of cost. This is one of the biggest legal literacy drive in the country," said Justice Patel.
Chief Minister Raghubar Das, Justice Deepak Mishra and Justice R Banumathi of the Supreme Court, Acting Chief Justice P K Mohanti of Jharkhand High Court along with HRD Minister Neera Yadav, Justice DN Patel, Justice HC Mishra of Jharkhand High Court and Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma will be present at the occasion.
"It will be a rare occasion during which the state heads of all the three pillars of administration will be present on a single platform," said Justice Patel.
The programme is being organized by Jharkhand legal Services Authority (JHAlSA), Department of Human Resource development department and Welfare Department of the State Government.
Earlier, Rs 128.56 crore will also be distributed among 5537 beneficiaries of 3rd University lok Adalat to be organized by Jharkhand legal Services Authority (JHAlSA) at Jharkhand High Court premises on Saturday. Preparation for this programme lasted for around 6 months starting with a meeting at Governor House on June 23, 2016.
"Cheques of Rs 128.56 crore are ready which will be distributed among a total of 5,537 beneficiaries which is 21 times more than the two University lok Adalats organized altogether earlier both in terms of amount and beneficiaries," said Justice Patel. The exercise for the third University lok Adalat began on June 23 with the blessings of Governor Droupadi Murmu, who is also the ex-officio Chancellor of all the six universities in the state, he added.
Both litigated and pre-litigated cases will be taken up of all the teaching and non-teaching employees of the Universities in Jharkhand," Justice Patel said. Appointment letters on compensatory ground will also be distributed among 18 beneficiaries during this programme, he said.
Counting the achievements made by JHAlSA, Justice Patel further said that a total of 69,580 cases have been disposed of till date through various lok Adalats since January 1, 2015 organized here settling matters worth Rs 8.58 crore.