Ranchi: The Jharkhand Legal Services Authority (JHALSA) launched ‘Project Shishu Sadaiv Twaya Sah’ on Monday for children who have been orphaned during the pandemic. The scheme was inaugurated by Jharkhand high court Justice-cum-JHALSA executive chairman Aparesh Kumar Singh.
The project has been conceptualised by Justice Singh in order to ensure that welfare schemes of the Centre for children are channeled to the rightful beneficiaries.
Justice Singh said: “JHALSA will identify children who have lost their parents to Covid-19 and help them bounce back in life.” He added that JHALSA will either contact the grandparents or rehabilitate the kids through adoption, foster care and institutional care.
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RANCHI: With the second wave of the pandemic here, the Jharkhand Legal Services Authority (Jhalsa) established a central ‘war room’ in Ranchi and other units in the districts which will be operational for 24x7 to help people in distress, mainly those who need Covid-related assistance.
Under the leadership of it executive chairman, Justice Aparesh Kumar of the high court, Jhalsa has come out with a new standard operating procedure for the district legal services authorities (DLSA) across the state to help patients affected with Covid.
Meetings were also held with the chief secretary and other department secretaries by Singh to streamline the programme. “Our para legal volunteers are a trained work force and can be utilised for the benefit of the government. The present spate of the pandemic has crippled the system. A response on a phone call and ensuring assistance to the people will help calm the situation,” Jhalsa member secretary Muhammad Shakir
In a first for Jharkhand, a transgender person became a member of a National Lok Adalat bench, organised by the District Legal Services Authority at the Ranchi civil court on Saturday.
Amruta Alpesh Soni, 38, from Sholapur district in Maharashtra, was part of the National Lok Adalat’s bench number 19, which also comprised judicial magistrate, Ranchi, Manish Kumar Singh, and Nityanand Singh, panel lawyer (DLSA Ranchi).
Lok Adalat is a forum where the disputes/cases pending in the court of law or at pre-litigation stage are settled/compromised amicably. The Lok Adalat has been given statutory status under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987.
Ranchi: The Jharkhand high court on Thursday took suo moto cognizance of a TOI report on March 3 on the murder of five persons of a family, including a five-year-old boy, in Gumla and ordered the DGP, chief secretary and the social welfare secretary to furnish a report in the matter.
The court also asked the government to inform about the steps taken to create awareness against witchcraft and superstitious beliefs. Observing that the “state should wake up from its slumber”, a division bench of Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad directed the Jharkhand Legal Services Authority to send a team to Gumla and submit a report. The case will be heard next on March 18.