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Panels to aid legal services authority

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Legal awareness: Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran (centre) and High Court judges V. Gopala Gowda (extreme left), Deepak Verma (second from right) and K.L. Manjunath at the 8th annual conference of district legal services authorities and taluk legal service committees in Bangalore on Saturday.

BANGALORE: The Karnataka State Legal Services Authority (KSLSA) has constituted 13 committees, each of them headed by a High Court judge, to effectively implement its action plan for spreading legal literacy.

This was disclosed by V. Gopala Gowda, senior High Court judge and Executive Chairman of the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority. He said the panels would help the authority discharge its duties better.

Mr. Gopala Gowda was speaking at the 8th annual conference of chairmen of district legal services authorities and taluk legal service committees and member secretaries of district legal services authorities held on the High Court premises on Saturday.

Activities decentralised

He said the authority had decentralised its activities for better implementation of its programmes. The authority had played a key role in helping nationalised banks recover non-performing assets (NPAs), particularly money owed to the banks by customers.

The Bangalore District legal Services Authority had conducted 24 legal literacy camps this year with the help of the Labour Department, he said.

This had been done to educate workers about their legal rights.

K.L. Manjunath, High Court judge and Chairman of the Karnataka High Court Legal Services Authority said mediation centres had been opened in 10 districts, and judicial officers in these districts were being trained in mediation.

Senior High Court judge Deepak Verma expressed happiness that the KSLSA had in all settled 4.29 lakh cases. He said both the KSLSA and the Bangalore Mediation Centre were doing a commendable job in rendering justice to the people.

P.D. Dinakaran, Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, said that while creating awareness among people about their legal rights, there was a need to tell people about the legal duties they owe to the Constitution and society.

Kempanna, Chairman of the Bangalore District legal Services Authority, spoke.

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