Office of the District Legal Services Authority, Cooch Behar
04-10-2024
Venue - Office of the District Legal Services Authority, Cooch Behar
Date - 30.09.2024
An interactive session program with the law student of Indian Institute of Legal Studies, Cooch Behar was organized by the District Legal Services Authority, Cooch Behar on 30.09.2024. The programme was presided by Sri. Pranay Subba, Secretary of DLSA, Cooch Behar. The chief objective of the programme was to disseminate the knowledge of the practical perspective and functioning of DLSA in the ground level and its execution part towards ensuring the justice to the victims and access to justice by providing the free legal assistance to the people who cannot afford legal representation or access to justice due to the socio-economic or other disability. The idea of legal services includes providing free legal aid to the weaker and marginalized section of the Indian society who falls within the purview of Section 12 of Legal Services Authority Act, 1987. It was an interactive session in the form of question answer session between the DLSA and the students of our institute from B.A. LL.B (H) Sem VII whereby the students got a clear understanding regarding the whole idea of legal aid, role and function of DLSA and procedure of filing the case then they may ask the questions regarding that matter through dialogue and discourse. Further in this program the authority discussed the different kind of cases which the DLSA deals and discusses its different parts, role of Para Legal Volunteer (PLV) and their roles in organizing various legal awareness programmes.
The key highlights of this programme are as follow:
- Role and function of DLSA and how its work
- What are the different kinds of cases that deals with DLSA office
- Different parts of DLSA and Role of PLV
- Procedure of filing the case
- Who are eligible to get the service of free legal aid under Legal Services Authority Act, 1987
The following are the list of students for visit to DLSA, Cooch Behar under supervision of Mr. Anit Kumar, Assistant Professor of Law, Indian Institute of Legal Studies Cooch Behar to attend the same -
- Akshina Parvin, B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
- Souravi Balo, B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
- Samir Roy, B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
- Bhusan Roy, B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
- Debasish Barman, B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
- Sraboni Majumdar, B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
- Neha Das B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
- Ritesh Singha, B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
- Prasanjit Singha, B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
- Abhik Das, B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
- Nandita Barman, B.A.LL.B (H) Sem-VII
