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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India to replicate China's barefoot doctor concept in legal field by Dhananjay Mahapatra

India to replicate China's barefoot doctor concept in legal field by Dhananjay Mahapatra

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published Published on Sep 16, 2010   modified Modified on Sep 16, 2010


India is planning to replicate China's barefoot doctor experiment in the legal field aiming to train one lakh para-legal volunteers who would tell rural people not to sleep over their rights violations and encourage them to take recourse to justice system for remedial measures.

Nearly 30 years after China abolished the barefoot doctor scheme under which farmers were given basic medical and para-medical training to work in rural areas, the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) appears to have taken a leaf out of it.

It plans to select volunteers from villages who will be imparted basic knowledge in law touching the daily life of a vast majority of population living in rural areas seldom accessing the justice delivery system against wrong doers or denial of justice.

This should sound a warning bell for officials in the state administration who are generally apathetic towards the rural people's rights under the Constitution as well as the police for their refusal to register FIRs.

In fact, the first step towards this is being taken by NALSA chairman Justice Altamas Kabir and its para-legal training activities head Justice P Sathasivam -- both of whom would flag off in Chandigarh this week-end the training of a specialised group of people who will in turn train the para-legal volunteers.

NALSA member-secretary U Sarathchandra told TOI that these volunteers would focus on exposure to constitutional and statutory rights of people as also the basics of civil, criminal, substantial and procedural laws.

"The women volunteers will be trained in marriage laws, anti-dowry provisions, Maternity Benefit Act, Child Marriage Restraint Act, domestic violence, maintenance labour welfare laws, all aimed at providing an aggrieved woman with the necessary lifeline to approach a legal aid committee at the taluka level to seek judicial redressal of the grievance rather than live with it," he said.

Each para-legal volunteer is expected to "educate people, especially those belonging to weaker sections of the society to enable them to be aware of the right to live with human dignity, to enjoy all constitutionally and statutorily guaranteed rights, performing the duties and discharging obligations as per law," said the member-secretary.

Apart from this, the volunteers would try to reduce unnecessary litigation by generating awareness among people about the benefits of settlement of disputes through Lok Adalats, conciliation, mediation and arbitration.

Importantly, NALSA is liaising with the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangthan to organise training programmes for the 20,000 National Youth Corps (NYC) volunteers at the state level to also act as para-legal volunteers. Of these 20,000, nearly 8,000 are meant for Jammu and Kashmir.


The Times of India, 16 September, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-to-replicate-Chinas-barefoot-doctor-concept-in-legal-field/articleshow/6561322.cms


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