By Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, MAY 5
A state level programme under Student Legal
Literacy Mission would be organized at Gurgaon on May 19, 2013.
While informing
this, Mr Justice S K Mittal, Judge Punjab and Haryana High Court, who is also
Executive Chairman of Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HALSA), said that
Mr. Justice P. Sathasivam, Judge Supreme Court of India would be the
chief guest of the programme and Haryana Chief Minister Mr Bhupinder Singh
Hooda would also grace the occasion.
He said that Haryana was the only state in India where Student Legal Literacy
Mission has been implemented to make the students aware about their legal
rights and duties. The programme had been appreciated throughout the country
and now other states were considering implementing it.
He said that as
many as 1600 Government High and Senior Secondary Schools of the state and over
600 private schools had been covered under this programme so far. Student Legal
Literacy Clubs had been opened in all these schools. Till now 25-30 lakh
students had been covered under this programme. A target had been fixed a
target to cover all the educational institutions of the state in the next two
years, Mr Justice Mittal asserted.
He said that now
such clubs were being opened in Universities, Colleges, Technical Colleges and
other educational institutions. He said that a big change was noticed among
students where Legal Literacy Clubs had been made operational as they were
becoming more and more legally aware and they insist their parents and
neighbourers to follow rules. Students were best carriers of education,
Mr Justice observed.
He
said that various types of competitions were organized at district, Division
and state level among legal literacy clubs on topics of law. The students who
perform better were awarded. The students who had excelled at state level would
be given awards at the programme on May 19.
Mr
Justice Mittal said that from July onwards every district of the state would
have separate Secretary for District Legal Services
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