Dimapur, May 9 (EMN): Longleng District Legal Services Authority (LDLSA) conducted a legal literacy programme at Lingtak village on May 6.
LDLSA retainer lawyer, Mane Phom spoke on “The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2017 and on legal perspective and human rights.”
Observing the increasing tendency to abandon parents and senior citizens by their children, he said the Act deals with maintenance of parents and senior citizens by their children or relatives, grandchildren, who may possibly inherit the property of a senior citizen.
Mane Phom said the Act protects the parents and senior citizen from difficulties, who are unable to maintain themselves through their own earnings or whose income is insufficient to apply for maintenance from their children, grand children etc.
He also said the Act makes it obligatory for the State government to establish old age homes atleast one in each district to assist the senior citizens who are indigent, while government hospitals or hospitals funded fully or partially by the government must provide beds to all senior citizens as far as possible.
Stating that poverty, social and economical backwardness and illiteracy are some of the major factors which prevent many of the under privileged sections of society from getting relief from the courts, Mane Phom said the Legal Services Authority Act 1987 was enacted making provisions for providing free legal aid and legal awareness to all.
He further informed that provision has also been made for Lok Adalats and pre-litigation conciliation and settlement to give redressal to the people without resorting to the adversarial process.
