{"id":27195,"date":"2017-06-16T12:40:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T12:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=27195"},"modified":"2017-06-16T12:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T12:40:44","slug":"launch-tele-law-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/launch-tele-law-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Tele-Law System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- The Government of India has launched the \u2018Tele-Law\u2019 programme in an effort to make legal aid easily accessible to the marginalized communities and citizens living in rural areas. The programme is being launched on a pilot basis in \u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Uttar Pradesh, Bihar<br \/>\n(b) Haryana, Punjab<br \/>\n(c) Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh<br \/>\n(d) Odisha, West Bengal<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On June 11, 2017, the government of India launched the Tele-Law programme to facilitate easy legal aid accessible to the marginalized communities and citizens living in rural areas.<\/li>\n<li>The program will be jointly organized by the Ministry of Law and Justice and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.<\/li>\n<li>The legal aid services will be provided through Common Service Centres (CSC) at panchayat level, spread across the country.<\/li>\n<li>In the first phase, the \u2018Tele-Law\u2019 scheme will be tested as a pilot across 500 Common service Centres (CSC) in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to understand the challenges and make necessary corrections to before rolling it out across the country.<\/li>\n<li>A portal called \u2018Tele-Law\u2019 will be also launched which will be available across the Common Service Centre (CSC) network.<\/li>\n<li>This portal will link citizens with law service providers with the help of a technology-enabled platform.<\/li>\n<li>Through Tele-law, people can get legal assistance from lawyers at Common Service Centers through video conferencing.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, law school clinics, District Legal Service Authorities, voluntary service providers and Non-Government Organisations working can also be connected through the CSCs anywhere and anytime, in order to strengthen access to justice for the marginalized communities.<\/li>\n<li>The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) will provide a panel of lawyers from State capitals, who will be available through video conferencing to provide legal advice and counselling to the applicants, across the 1000 Common Service Centres (CSC).<\/li>\n<li>Under this program, a para legal volunteer will be appointed on every Common service center, which will be the first point of contact for rural citizens and help them understand the legal issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related Links:-<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=165554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=165554<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintHindiRelease.aspx?relid=65432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintHindiRelease.aspx?relid=65432<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- The Government of India has launched the \u2018Tele-Law\u2019 programme in an effort to make legal aid easily accessible to the marginalized communities and citizens living in rural areas. The programme is being launched on a pilot basis in \u2026 (a) Uttar Pradesh, Bihar (b) Haryana, Punjab (c) Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh (d) Odisha, West Bengal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}