APSLSA organizes webinar on synergy between customary practices & formal laws

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ITANAGAR: The Arunachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (APSLSA) on Thursday organized a national webinar for stakeholders aimed at discussing and reviewing the findings of the ambitious project Synergy between customary practises of the traditional village council system and formal laws of India.’ The initiative, referred to as a legal literacy cum training project, has the profound objective of spreading legal awareness in rural Arunachal by providing training to the traditional heads of the village councils, commonly known as gaon burahs and gaon burihs, on various laws and schemes of public importance.

The collaborative project jointly carried out in the state by APSLSA and the union justice department under the Designing Innovative Solutions for Holistic Access to Justice (DISHA) initiative recently reached its conclusion. The webinar served as a platform for an insightful discussion and reflection on the learning and outcomes of the project. Dignitaries, including Itanagar's permanent bench of Gauhati High Court’s Registrar Budi Habung, APSLSA member secretary Yomge Ado, and director of the union justice department Chandra Mohiyar, graced the event with their presence. Representatives of various stakeholders, including GBs, women's organizations, legal practitioners, and representatives from the Indian Institution of Public Administration (IIPA), also participated in the discussions. Throughout the event, a series of deliberations revolved around the significance of the project and the role of the GB institution in the promotion of legal empowerment and access to justice in rural Arunachal. The discussions shed light on the project's relevance and its potential to empower local communities through legal literacy. The culmination of the webinar signifies the successful completion of a comprehensive 2-year APSLSA-DOJ campaign, which was initially announced in September 2021. The campaign's primary aim was to provide training to 500 GBs from 13 districts of the state. Impressively, the project exceeded expectations by training 554 GBs from 417 villages.

Moreover, over 5000 villagers indirectly benefited from the project as trained GBs, under the "Each One Teach Ten" campaign, a parallel legal awareness initiative conducted alongside the synergy project, imparted legal knowledge to members of their respective communities. The webinar concluded with an address by Mohiyar, during which he reaffirmed the department's unwavering commitment to continuing and advancing the project into its next phase.

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