NALSAR University of Law and Landesa with the support of State Legal Services Authority established a Land Rights Legal Aid Clinic at Nyaya Seva Sadan, District Court, Warangal on\u00a0March 3, 2013. This Legal Aid Clinic is aimed to provide free legal services to the poor and needy, creating awareness among the people about their rights and helping the litigants in all possible ways. In last three years, theClinic provided legal advice to 538 persons with land problems and helped them in getting their land problems resolved.\u00a0The Clinic organized land legal literacy programmes in about thirty villages in Warangal District and created awareness on land rights, records and procedures for getting the land problems resolved.\u00a0Until now, about ten thousand rural people reached through the legal awareness meetings organized in the villages.\u00a0Land Rights Legal Aid Clinic with the support of District Legal Services Authority organized training programmes on land matters to various stakeholders including paralegal volunteers, SHG women, Anganwadi workers, students, police officers, revenue officers, Advocates, media persons and members of civil society organisations.\u00a0About 3000 people trained until now through the Land Clinic.<\/p>\n
Sub-Divisional Land Centres and Village Land Clinics<\/strong><\/p>\n In extension of the activities of the Land Rights Legal Aid Clinic, Landesa and NALSAR established two sub-district level Land Centres at Jangaon and Narsampet in Warangal District. Team of thirty paralegals, community resource persons and lawyers are working in six selected villages and providing legal assistance to the poor and needy on land matters. In all the six selected villages, land legal aid clinics are established.<\/p>\n Community based Land Paralegal Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2004, to help rural poor families who are landless or lack secure legal rights, the state government launched a community based paralegal programme called land access program as part of the Society of Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) to resolve land problems of the poor. NALSAR University of Law through the Centre for Tribal and Land Rights trained about 500 paralegals. NALSAR also selected and trained all the legal coordinators. Landesa provided technical support in design, implementation and periodical assessment of the programme. Further, Landesa provided training materials to all the paralegals, community surveyors and legal coordinators.<\/p>\n Inaugural Session of the Workshop<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Hon\u2019ble Shri K. Chandrashekar Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana will deliver the inaugural address at the workshop jointly organized by NALSAR and Landesa on \u201cLand Related Legal Services Needs of Poor: Experiences, Expectations and Innovations\u201d. The workshop inaugural will be held at the University campus from\u00a04.10 pm to 5.30 pm\u00a0on March 19, 2016.\u00a0\u00a0Hon\u2019ble Mr. Justice Anil R. Dave, Judge, Supreme Court of India will give presidential address. Hon\u2019ble Mr. Justice Dipak Misra, Judge, Supreme Court of India will give the keynote address.\u00a0\u00a0Hon\u2019ble Mr. Justice N.V. Ramana, Judge, Supreme Court of India will give special address. Welcome address will be by Hon\u2019ble Mr. Justice Dilip B. Bhosale, Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad & Chancellor, NALSAR University of Law<\/p>\n About the Workshop<\/strong>:<\/p>\n NALSAR University of Law in collaboration with Landesa (Rural Development Institute) is proposing to organise a two-day workshop on \u201cLand Related Legal Services Needs of Poor: Experiences, Expectations and Innovations\u201d from\u00a019-20 March, 2016\u00a0at NALSAR University of Law, Justice City, Shameerpet, R. R. District, Hyderabad. This workshop primarily aims at drawing a platform to discuss the findings from the legal needs & bottlenecks study and experience of Land Rights Legal Aid Clinic established at the office of District Legal Services Authority, Warangal, Sub-Divisional Land Centres and Village Land Clinics and Community based Paralegal Programme of SERP. Based on these experiences, the workshop will discuss the models for effective legal services delivery systems for helping the poor in land matters. Workshop will deliberate on these issues-<\/p>\n Inauguration of the Auditorium<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Hon\u2019ble Shri K. Chandrashekar Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana will inaugurate the University Auditorium at 4 pm on\u00a0March 19, 2016\u00a0in the august presence of Hon\u2019ble Mr. Justice Anil R. Dave, Judge, Supreme Court of India, Hon\u2019ble Mr. Justice Dipak Misra, Judge, Supreme Court of India, Judge, Supreme Court of India, Hon\u2019ble Mr. Justice N.V. Ramana, Judge, Supreme Court of India and Hon\u2019ble Mr. Justice Dilip B. Bhosale, Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad & Chancellor, NALSAR University of Law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reported by Varun Reddy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawschoolnews","category-others"],"yoast_head":"\n\n