PSLSA provided free legal aid to over 25,000

Punjab State Legal Services Authority has provided free legal aid to 25,202 needy persons in the state from April 2017 to January this year. For the purpose, no less than 4400 para legal volunteers and lawyers are active for free legal aid.

Sharing this information, the judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Punjab State Legal Services Authority’s executive chairman Justice TPS Mann said: “Punjab State Legal Services Authority has always taken initiatives to help poor, downtrodden and old people.”

Justice Mann, addressing the gathering during inauguration ceremony of Legal Literacy Clubs at government schools in Mohali, said that the District Legal Services Authority, under the aegis of Punjab State Legal Services Authority, is actually reaching out to the marginalized segment of society.

Under the aegis of National Legal Services Authority, the Legal Literacy Clubs at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Phase 3B1, Mohali, and Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sohana, have been upgraded and inaugurated by Justice Mann, along with his colleague Justice Rajiv Narain Raina, who is also the administrative judge sessions divisions, SAS Nagar.

Justice Mann said that the Legal Literacy Clubs have been opened in all the Government Schools in Mohali district and now as per instructions received from the National Legal Services Authority, five legal literacy clubs in each district have to be updated by providing appropriate furniture, study material, books and computers.

A toll free helpline no 1968 is working 24X7 for proving free legal services.