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03/08/22 05:56 AM IST

PM addressed the inaugural session of the 1st DLSA meet

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  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the first ever inaugural session of the first national meet of District Legal Services Authorities at Vigyan Bhawan.
DLSA 
  • Established under Legal Services Authorities Act (LSA) 1987.
  • District Legal Services Authority is constituted in every District to implement Legal Aid Programmes and Schemes in the District.
  • There are 676 DLSA in India (headed by a District judge (acting as Chairman))
  • Legal Services Institutions have been set up at various levels e.g.,
  • NALSA (national level, CJI is a patron in chief)
  • SLSA (state level, headed by the chief justice of HC)
  • DLSA (district level)
  • Taluka/sub-division level (TLSC) (Taluka level, headed by Civil Judge)
Disha Scheme 
  • Department of Justice (DoJ) has launched comprehensive, holistic, integrated and systemic solution on access to justice at pan India level through a scheme titled “Designing Innovative Solutions for Holistic Access to Justice (DISHA)” being implemented from 2021-26.
  • All the Access to Justice Programmes have been merged under DISHA scheme and upscaled to all India level.
Source- PIB 

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