Wednesday, September 18, 2013

HSLSA to organize workshop for CJMs of Haryana and Punjab



By Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, SEPT 18
The Haryana and Punjab State Legal Services Authorities will organize a first of its kind joint workshop to sensitize the Chief Judicial Magistrates-cum-Secretaries of District Legal Services Authorities of Haryana and Punjab States at Chandigarh Judicial Academy, Chandigarh on September 21 and 22, 2013.
          While giving this information here today, a spokesman of Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HSLSA) said that various schemes and programmes of Legal Services Authorities and difficulties faced in implementation of the same would be discussed in this workshop.
          The spokesman said that the workshop would be presided over by Mr. Justice Jasbir Singh, Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman, Punjab Legal Services Authority and Mr. Justice Satish Kumar Mittal, Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman, Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HSLSA). Member Secretary, National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) Ms. Asha Menon would participate in the workshop. Apart from this the erstwhile Secretaries of District Legal Services Authorities, who have been recently promoted as Additional District and Sessions Judges, would also participate in the workshop. 
          He said that in order to improve the functioning of District Legal Services Authorities and Sub-Divisional Legal Services Committees; and for updating and proper implementation of various schemes of NALSA and of Haryana and Punjab Legal Services Authorities, it is required to sensitize the Chief Judicial Magistrates-cum-Secretaries of District Legal Services Authorities from time to time, as they form the backbone of the Authority to implement the schemes at field level. Similarly, such workshop is also necessary for new Secretaries of DLSAs, who have been recently appointed in both States, he added.

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