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Judge for imparting legal awareness to women SHGs

Staff Reporter

`This will enable them fight for their rights'

Coimbatore: The Principal District Sessions Judge A. Rathnavelu on Wednesday stressed the need for imparting legal awareness to members of the women self help groups.

Educating the community

Speaking at the executive committee meeting of the District Legal Services Authority, Mr. Rathnavelu pointed out that women being imparted knowledge on law is almost like educating the entire family and the community.

Only when women are aware of their lawfully established rights and insulations available to them in the form of legal provisions, they would be able to fight for ascertaining their rights.

The women besides equipping themselves with the knowledge as members of the women self help groups will be able to effectively propagate it among the masses.

Cases resolved

Under the Alternative Dispute Rederessal System (ADRS), the Judge said that a number of cases relating to bank disputes, motor accidents, cheque bounce, electricity theft, family disputes, matrimonial cases, civil disputes, mobile bill disputes, tax appeals and labour court disputes had been resolved.

As many as 3,484 cases had been resolved between April 2003 to October 2005, he said.

Disputes

Through such measures, mutually agreeable solution to disputes had been arrived at and the pendency of cases before courts had been substantially reduced. Such exercises had not only saved the time of the official machinery and the judiciary but that of the litigants as well.

Responding to a suggestion by Mr. Rathnavelu, Collector, S. Kosalaraman, said that the Project Officer of the District Rural Development Agency, P. Jeyabalakrishnan, will work out the modalities for conducting legal awareness camps for 17,000 women self help groups in the district.

Rural pockets

Not confining its activities to urban pockets alone, the Authority had gone an extra mile in reaching out to the hitherto unreached masses in rural pockets, the Collector pointed out.

Book released

The Judge released the book on Perspective of Legal Awareness and its impact (containing basic guidelines to primary laws) and the copies were received by the Commissioner of Police, Karan Singha, Corporation Commissioner, Anil Meshram and Chief Judicial Magistrate R. Dhandapani.

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