APSLSA organizes para legal volunteer induction training in Arunachal Pradesh

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ITANAGAR: The Arunachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (APSLSA) organized a two-day paralegal volunteer (PLV) induction training programme for the law students of Arunachal Law Academy (ALA) at Lekhi, near Naharlagun, on November 2 and 3. The training was conducted at ALA on Thursday and at Himalayan University, Jollang, on Friday. APLSA member secretary Yomge Ado, in his keynote address, highlighted the overview and hierarchy of NALSA, SLSA, and DLSA and its executive bodies and their functions on a grassroots level. He also informed the students about the chairman and secretaries of District Legal Services Authorities, which is an implementing body for the legal aid programmes and schemes in the district. They are headed by the District and Sessions Judge, and the Chief Judicial Magistrate, or Judicial Magistrate First Class, functions as secretaries of District Legal Services Authorities.

Ado dwelt on length on the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, which ensures to provide free and competent legal services to the needy and weaker sections of society, and stressed how PLVs can act as a bridge to reach out to common people, educating them about basic legal rights and availing them of various free legal services schemes provided by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA). He also emphasised the need to train law students as the right people to be paralegal volunteers. The two-day training ended with a total of 312 participants.

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