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`More States to launch legal literacy programme'

By Our Staff Reporter

KOLLAM Oct. 18. The High Court Judge and chairman of the Kerala State Legal Services Authority (KSLSA), Justice K.A. Abdul Ghafoor, has said the legal literacy programme launched for students in the State was emerging as a model programme in the country.

Inaugurating the State-level legal literacy programme for undergraduates here today, he said that textbooks prepared for the programme at the school-level by the KSLSA had already been translated into English, Kannada and Hindi. The Tamil translation of the book was under way.

It meant that the programme, pioneered in Kerala, was poised to be introduced in other States too, he said.

Justice Ghafoor said it was the success of the programme at the school-level which prompted the KSLSA to launch the same at the college level for undergraduates. Last year alone 6.5 lakh school students had been covered through the programme.

Women empowerment was one of the thrusts projected through the programme. A society can be termed civilised only if due respect was accorded to the law and that can be achieved only if one had some basic knowledge about the laws.

The legal literacy programme aimed at imparting that to the younger generation so as create a society with legal awareness.

Earlier, while welcoming the gathering, the principal of the Fatima Mata National College, G. Henry, said that very often law was misinterpreted as set of rules which prevented people from doing something. It should be seen as set of rules guiding people how to do something.

The District Judge and district chairman of the KSLSA, K. Chenthamarakshan, presided.

The district panchayat president, Aiysha Potti, the honorary secretary of the Quilon Public Library, K, Ravendranathan Nair, the principals of the S.N. Women's College and the TKM Arts and Science College, Suma Narayanan and Hashim, and the NSS programme coordinator, Thomas Mathew, addressed.

The district secretary of the KSLSA, Emmanuel P. Kolady, proposed a vote of thanks.

The noted lawyer, Varinjam N. Ramachandran Nair, conducted a class on "crime against women'' and the professor at the Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram, Usha, conducted a class on "family laws and the laws of inheritance.''

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