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Unique programme to spread legal literacy

BANGALORE: The Karnataka State Legal Services Authority (KSLSA) has decided to embark on a unique programme to spread legal literacy and awareness in rural areas of the State.

Authority Chairman and High Court judge V. Gopala Gowda told The Hindu on Saturday that the authority had chalked out a scheme to “go to the masses” covering all villages to spread legal awareness and benefits of lok adalats.

Mr. Gopala Gowda said that as part of its continuing endeavour to help economically poor litigants, the authority had proposed to take the concept of mobile lok adalats to all villages in the State. The authority had plans to purchase a bus for the purpose.

He said the bus would act as a mobile court of the authority. Apart from attempting to solving petty cases, it would help in promoting legal literacy. As a pilot project, the authority had plans to begin with a single bus and this concept was set to take off early in 2008.

The bus would be placed at the disposal of each of the district legal services authority and they in turn would ensure that the mobile court visited all villages in a district.

This would help the poor and needy in getting justice. Many of them could not afford to come to the taluk or district courts and fight out their case. Besides, small incidents and events either go unreported or unregistered by the police, he said.

The mobile court was likely to help the illiterates realise that they too could fight for their rights without spending much money.

It was also likely to help the courts in resolving small and petty cases which had been clogging the system and leading to pendency of cases, he said.

He said Karnataka would be the second State after Haryana to introduce such a concept.

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