Pan India Awareness and Outreach Programme in villages of Manipur

October 16, 2021

Pan India Awareness / Outreach Programme : Special 15 days Door-to-Door Campaign on 16 Oct 2021

As a part of NALSA’s Pan India Awareness and Outreach Campaign, all District Legal Services Authorties under the Manipur State Legal Services Authority initiated a special 15 days Door-to-Door Campaign from today, i.e., 16th October 2021, to identify such margilinalised, vulnerable and helpless persons and to ensure their rights and entitlements are actualised in reality.

The respective Chairpersons and Secretaries of each District Legal Services Authorities launched this special campaign in their respective districts in the presence of legal services functionaries and district administration officials.

Shri. Ojesh Mutum, Member Secretary, MASLSA also launched the campaign from Kamjong district wherein awareness on free legal aid and services were provided along with distribution of legal services pamphlets to villagers residing in remote villages such as Montu, Mathang, Lambui, Shanshak, Lungreiphung, Singha, Nungpak Khullen, Puntha, Kangpat, Hangkaw, Kongkan, Pushing, Lakhan, Chatric and others.

Pan India Awareness / Outreach Programme : Special 15 days Door-to-Door Campaign on 16 Oct 2021

Throughout these 15 days, around 350 Para Legal Volunteers and other legal services functionaries will attempt to cover all the 2580 villages of Manipur to give awareness of the rights and entitlements, to identify all such beneficiaries and provide legal aid and assistance wherever required.

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Kh. Nobin Singh, Exectuive Chairman, MASLSA have also emphasized the need to reach out to every such person, instead of waiting for them to come to the legal services institutions.

A modest target to identify a minimum of 3,30,000 vulnerable beneficiaries is set; and each Para Legal Volunteer or Legal Aid Clinic is expected to identify more than 6000 beneficiaries during this period.

Various other forms of creating mass legal awareness will also be used- including audio-visual means, mobile vans and cycling teams. All the district administration officials will also be rendering active co-operation and assistance during these 15 days.

As a follow up, special micro legal services camps will also be organized all over Manipur, to ensure every right of all such identified marginalized persons is actually realized.

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(Sorokhaibam Sadananda)
Deputy Member Secretary
Manipur State Legal Services Authority (MASLSA)