Dimapur, Nov. 9 (EMN): Along with the rest of the country, the District Legal Services Authorities (DLSAs) of Dimapur, Mokokchung, Kiphire, Tuensang, Wokha, Peren, Longleng, Phek, Kohima and Zunheboto observed legal services day on Friday at their respective district.
The DLSAs commemorated the day through commendation ceremony, legal awareness in schools, door-to-door campaign and setting up help desk for the public.
The ten days door-to-door campaign kick started with an objective to make weaker and marginalized sections of society aware about the existence of legal services institutions and availability of free legal services. The campaign will conclude November 18, a statement from the legal authority said.
The day is observed every year in India in November to lay emphasis on legal literacy and increase legal awareness amongst the masses especially those who live in far off areas and where legal literacy is lacking, it stated.
“To make people aware about legal services clinics, front offices and legal aid help line numbers and to identify people who are in need of legal assistance but have not taken recourse to justice delivery system on account of economic or other disability.”
Awareness about the availability of free legal services will act like a catalyst which would enable the weaker and downtrodden aggrieved masses to assert their rights and approach the justice delivery mechanism for redressal of their grievances. This will lead to empowering of poor and weak, it said.
Teams of para-legal volunteers headed by panel lawyers in the 11 districts of Nagaland will be reaching out to the people at the doorstep with legal literature consisting of pamphlets, brochures, and booklets in English and local dialect.
