Legal awareness programme kick-starts in Ganderbal

Ganderbal, Nov 3: The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Ganderbal in collaboration with Tehsil Legal Services Committees Ganderbal and Kangan kick-started legal awareness and outreach programme in district Ganderbal in connection with the Legal Services Week and to commemorate the Legal Services Day, to be celebrated on 9 November.

The weeklong awareness and outreach programmes will be carried out throughout the week by DLSA Ganderbal from 3rd of November to 9th of November in District Ganderbal. The week long Legal Awareness and Outreach Programme started on Friday with deployment of awareness Mobile Van to create awareness, aimed to reach to every person in the District Ganderbal, which was flagged off by Chairman District Legal Services Authority, Ganderbal Ritesh Kumar Dubey in presence of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ganderbal, Fayaz Ahmad Qureshi, Secretary DLSA Ganderbal, Civil Judge Sr. Division, Nusrat Ali Hakak, Sr. Superintendent of Police, Ganderbal, Nikhil Borkar, Chairman TLSC, Ganderbal, Mohammad Waseem Mirza, Additional Special Mobile Magistrate Ganderbal, Mehnaz Qadir.

On the occasion, the Chairman District Legal Services Authority, Ganderbal Ritesh Kumar Dubey said that the week long Legal Awareness and Outreach Programme is started with an aim to provide equal justice and free legal aid to marginalised people with access to justice in the truest sense of the word.

He said the District Legal Services Authority Ganderbal is continuously working to achieve the goal of ensuring “Equal Justice and Free Legal Aid” and to remove impediments besides economic barrier like legal illiteracy and complicated judicial procedures and have a responsibility to ensure that the underprivileged, disadvantaged, oppressed, and weaker segments of society have easier access to justice.

Among others President District Bar Association Ganderbal, Sajad Hyder Salathi, Panel Lawyers, Advocates, Staff Members of DLSA Ganderbal, PLVs of District Ganderbal and Coordinator, 181- Women’s Help Line Bilal Ahmad Bhat was present.