Student Legal Literacy Mission in Gurgaon

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