Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, May 23: A two-day training programme for Para Legal Volunteers (PLVs) was held here. The program was inaugurated by Principal District and Sessions Judge, Y P Kotwal.
While inaugurating the programme, Mr Kotwal, who is also the Chairman of the District Legal Services Authority, said that PLVs were appointed to provide legal and non-legal services besides imparting legal awareness to the public and PLVs were expected to act as a bridge between legal services authority and the public.
Exhorting the PLVs to bring to the notice of the Legal Services Authority any kind of injustice and human rights violations, the Judge said the PLVs should render dedicated service to the needy.
Specifying their duties, Sunit Gupta, Chief Judicial Magistrate called upon the volunteers to familiarize themselves with various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code.
They should also gain knowledge on fundamental rights, arrest procedures and protection, women empowerment, juvenile justice, protection of children from sexual offences act and senior citizen act to help the needy. They should help people in drafting petitions and educate them on alternative conciliation available in Lok Adalats, he said.
Anjana Rajput, Additional Special Mobile Magistrate in her address informed that the PLVs would also be provided a guide on Human Rights, Right to Information Act, Consumer Protection Act, Protection of Civil Rights Act, Domestic Violence Act and Rules, Child Marriage Restraint Act and Rules and Prohibition of Harassment of Women, she added.
Other resource personalities who attended the function included Jyoti Bhagat, Munsiff JMIC Reasi, Assistant Commissioner Development, District Panchyal Officer, Chief Horticulture Officer, Additional Superintendent of Police, President Bar Association.
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