Legal awareness programme for students held
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, September 14 2015:
District Legal Services Authority, Imphal West and All Manipur Nupi Marup jointly organised a one-day legal awareness programme on Monday under the sponsorship of Manipur State Legal Services Authority at Mekola Gulap Higher Secondary School.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Imphal West and Secretary District Legal Services Authority Imphal West, RK Memcha attended the programme as chief guest while Principal of Mekola Gulap Higher Secondary School, Longjam Biren Singh and president of All Manipur Nupi Marup M Sakhi were the president and guest of honour respectively.
M Sakhi said that students especially from class IX to XII need to know the established laws since many unwanted incidents including mob justice and cyber crimes have increased in the society.
Security personnel do not know how to treat youths according to the law while youth students are also following the same due to lack of knowledge about laws, said Sakhi while adding that students who have proper knowledge about laws will be the foundation of a good society.
L Biren said that considering the present scenario, organizing legal awareness programmes are necessary for everyone as people are apparently confused about the current law and order situation in the State.
Each and every section of the society seems to have forgotten the existence of law, said Biren and added that students should know that laws cannot be taken in their hands.
Students should respect law and only then rate of crime and unwanted incidents in the society will decrease automatically, added Biren.
Advocate Ch Narendra spoke on the topic 'Student's Law and Consumer's Right' and Higher Secondary Lecture Welfare Association general secretary M Joykumar on 'Right to Education and Protection from Cyber Crime' while advocate S Manorama on 'Legal Services Authority' .