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The Legal Aid cell was instituted in February 2009,
and serves to provide pro bono legal service to indigent complainants.
The Legal Aid cell functions as a dispute resolution centre, where
indigent clients come to the office with their problems, and are
offered advice by a panel consisting of students and faculty.
Subsequently, the legal aid cell follows up the issue with the
concerned parties in pursuance of resolution, or refers it to an
advocate for pro bono litigation. The Legal Aid Cell also publishes
material with regard to the law and the common man.
The Teach India Initiative is an exercise where
NALSAR students, as part of their Legal Aid Course, teach students in
low-income schools in Shameerpet Village. The Course outline consists
of the school prescribed curriculum with the addition of classes on
General Knowledge, Rights and Duties of an Indian Citizen, Newspaper in
Education, Study Skills, Moral Science and so forth. The program is
presently carried out in the Srinivasa Memorial School, Shameerpet.
- Legal Literacy and Legal Awareness
This program is concerned with the necessity of
spreading awareness about legally enforceable rights and duties,
and is a means of ensuring that the people know the law to which
they are subject, and thus have the means of using it to their benefit,
to get what they rightfully deserve. As part of this program, two Legal
Literacy Camps have been held, in Shameerpet and NALSAR University
which have dealt with the procedure of filing an FIR, prohibition of
Dowry and similar issues.
- Rehabilitation and Conciliation Centre
The Rehabilitation and Conciliation Centre
undertakes the facilitation of rehabilitation programs for persons
displaced by government’s acquisition of land. This Centre is
active in the R.R District, and undertakes the resolution disputes
arising out of and land allotment under the Lavanya Patta Scheme or the
Indiramma Housing Scheme and any encroachment upon such land. The
Centre’s conciliation program is directed to the peaceful
settlement of disputes relating to property rights.
This segment provides legal aid to prison inmates,
and is principally concerned with compliance of prison authorities with
principles of due process of law. Furthermore, this program is
informative in that it also aims to spread awareness among prison
inmates of their rights under the principle of due process. This
program is being conducted in the Cherlapalli Central Jail, and
operates through the conduct of a survey among prison inmates to
ascertain their grievances and to uncover any lapses on the part of
prison authorities.
- Implementation of Government Schemes
Although India has some of the best schemes for
poverty alleviation and assistance, Government reports and media
reports are testimony to many of these schemes not being implemented
well due to a whole range of resons from corruption to logistics. This
program seeks to redress these roadblocks in specific schemes. The
focus is currently on, the Indiramma Housing Scheme, the Pavallawadi
Scheme, the Aarogyashree Scheme and the Abhyastamam scheme. Interaction
and assistance happens through the Praja Darbar and has proved to be
effective so far.
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