82,711 rural people get legal services in Rajshahi division

RAJSHAHI: More than 82,000 people most of them are women received legal services free of cost in 11 upazilas under seven districts in Rajshahi division during last two years, reports BSS.
With these initiatives, the beneficiaries became aware about their legal rights that helping them establishing their confidence on how to get the legal services whenever and wherever they need. The activities also contributed to activating the function of village court to some extent.
Light House under its 'Improved Justice and Legal Aid Services (IJLAS) project' provided the legal support under the Community Legal Services (CLS) programme funded by UKAID through Maxwell Stamp-PLC. These were revealed at a press conference held at Light House Project office in Rajshahi yesterday. Team Leader of IJLAS Project Nicholas Biswas addressed the press conference as focal persons highlighting the project activities and progress elaborately.
The project is being implemented with the main thrust of improving access to justice and existing legal service procedure for unserved population including the remotest ones like ethnic minorities.
Panel Lawyers Shimim Aktar Maya and Adeeb Imam Dalim, Project Officer Rashida Khatun, Upazila Coordinators Sanaullah and Emdad Ali, DIC Manager Anisuzzaman and President of Rajshahi Press club Anwarul Alam Fatik also spoke. It was told at the press conference that some 1552 cases were referred to village courts and arbitration council. Of those, 897 were disposed of peacefully.
Besides, 635 other cases were referred to district legal aid committee and 199 of those were resolved.
With this breakthrough, the beneficiaries received around Tk 63.60 lakh as compensation. The project attained success in making linkages between other government and non-government organisations concerned for better service delivery. Through the project interventions, village ourts and arbitration  council are becoming functional and sitting regularly.

82,711 rural people get legal services in Rajshahi division

RAJSHAHI: More than 82,000 people most of them are women received legal services free of cost in 11 upazilas under seven districts in Rajshahi division during last two years, reports BSS. With these initiatives, the beneficiaries became aware about their legal rights that helping them establishing their confidence on how to get the legal services whenever and wherever they need. The activities also contributed to activating the function of village court to some extent. Light House under its Improved Justice and Legal Aid Services (IJLAS) project provided the legal support under the Community Legal Services (CLS) programme funded by UKAID through Maxwell Stamp-PLC. These were revealed at a press conference held at Light House Project office in Rajshahi yesterday. Team Leader of IJLAS Project Nicholas Biswas addressed the press conference as focal persons highlighting the project activities and progress elaborately. The project is being implemented with the main thrust of improving access to justice and existing legal service procedure for unserved population including the remotest ones like ethnic minorities. Panel Lawyers Shimim Aktar Maya and Adeeb Imam Dalim, Project Officer Rashida Khatun, Upazila Coordinators Sanaullah and Emdad Ali, DIC Manager Anisuzzaman and President of Rajshahi Press club Anwarul Alam Fatik also spoke. It was told at the press conference that some 1552 cases were referred to village courts and arbitration council. Of those, 897 were disposed of peacefully. Besides, 635 other cases were referred to district legal aid committee and 199 of those were resolved. With this breakthrough, the beneficiaries received around Tk 63.60 lakh as compensation. The project attained success in making linkages between other government and non-government organisations concerned for better service delivery. Through the project interventions, village ourts and arbitration council are becoming functional and sitting regularly.