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WHOLE TIME SECRETARIES IN THE STATE OF NewsletterNewsletter Issue - August, 2013 Sr.No. Name of Secretary Headquarter Additional Charge Contact Patron-in-Chief of DLSA Number 1. Sh.Rajender Singh Ambala & Kaithal 08813888507 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul Chief Justice, High Court, Punjab & Haryana 2. Sh.Jaibir Singh Yamuna Nagar 08558855207, 09416951009 3. Mrs.Rachna Gupta Jhajjar 09968699988, 08930222125 4. Ms.Narinder Kaur Mewat at Nuh 09818609006 Executive Chairman 5. Sh.Narender 09671824333 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Satish Kumar Mittal 6. Ms. Rajni Yadav Faridabad Palwal 08586900611 Judge, High Court, Punjab & Haryana 7. Sh.Harish Gupta Sirsa Fatehabad 08053344408 8. Sh. Rajesh Mehta Karnal & Sonipat 09896499945 9. Sh.Amit K.Sharma Bhiwani Jind 08930637171 Member Secretary Joint Member Secretary 10. Sh. Baseshar Singh Narnaul 08930222083 Deepak Gupta Anupamish Modi

HALSA TOLL FREE HELPLINE NUMBER 1800-180-2057 DISTRICT LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITIES TOLL FREE HELPLINE NUMBER

Sr. District Telephone Sr. District Telephone No. Number No. Number 1. Ambala 0171-2532142 11. Kaithal 01746-235759 2. Bhiwani 01664-245933 12. Mewat at Nuh 01267-271072 3. Faridabad 0129-2261898 13. Narnaul 01282-250322 4. Fatehabad 01667-231174 14. Panchkula 0172-2585566 5. Gurgaon 0124-2221501 15. Panipat 0180-2640125 6. Hissar 01662-270078 16. Palwal 01275-259304 7. Jind 01681-245048 17. Rohtak 01262-257304 8. Jhajjar 01251-252013 18. Rewari 01274-220062 9. Kurukshetra 01744-220216 19. Sirsa 01666-247002 10. Karnal 0184-2266138 20. Sonepat 0130-2220057 21. Yamuna Nagar 01732-220840

HARYANA STATE LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY SCO No. 142-143, First Floor, Sector 34-A, - 160 022 Tel.No. : 0172-2604055, Fax No.0172-2622875, Toll Free No.1800-180-2057 Website : www.hslsa.nic.in E-mail : [email protected], [email protected] ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTRE in most of other Districts has already been INAUGURATED IN PALWAL laid and the construction work is in full swing and that these ADR Centers would have On 03.08.2013, the State of Haryana got its office of District Legal Services Authority, first ADR Centre, fully constructed and Permanent Lok Adalat (Public Utility equipped with all modern amenities and Services), Lok Adalat Hall for settling claims facilities, ready for functioning in District Court of Victim Compensation, multi-purpose Complex, Palwal. Conference Hall, Mediation Center, a Library, Wa i t i n g A r e a a n d p r o p e r s i t t i n g The ADR Centre along with District Court arrangements for the lawyers and the Complex, Palwal was inaugurated by Hon'ble litigants. Mr. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Chief Justice, Punjab & Haryana High Court; and Hon'ble Sh. Thus, all the Districts in the State of Haryana would have ADR Centers, where all Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister, Haryana the remedial alternative forums like negotiations, mediation, Lok Adalat etc. for settling along with Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.K. Mittal, of the dispute amicably would be available to the public under one roof. Judge, Punjab & Haryana High Court & MORE GLIMPSE OF THE FUNCTION Executive Chairman of this Authority; and Hon'ble Mr. Justice Inderjit Singh Walia, Judge, Punjab & Haryana High Court and Administrative Judge, Palwal Sessions Division in the august presence of Hon'ble Mr. Justice R.K.Garg, Hon'ble Mr. Justice V.S.Malik, Hon'ble Mr. Justice Paramjeet Singh, Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rameshwar Singh Malik, Hon'ble Dr. Justice B.B. Parsoon. Sh. Ramendra Jain, District & Sessions Judge cum- Chairman DLSA, Palwal; Sh. Deepak Gupta, Member Secretary, Haryana State Legal Services Authority; judicial officers and other officers of District Administration were also present. Inaugurating the ADR Centre, Hon'ble the Chief Justice Mr. Sanjay Kishan Kaul in his address told the audience of above 1000 people attending the function that the ADR Center would serve as a platform for providing speedy and cost friendly Justice by amicable settlement through Lok Adalats & Mediation by trained mediators. Hon'ble Chief Minister, Sh. Bhupinder Singh Hooda laid stress on the requirement of timely and inexpensive Justice for the common man by underlying the need for reducing the number of pending cases in the Courts. Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.K. Mittal, Executive Chairman, HALSA apprised the gathering about the object of ADR Centre and its benefits especially to those people, who are unaware of their rights or are unable to enforce their rights due to any kind of disability. His Lordship also informed that the foundation stones of ADR Centers FOUNDATION STONE OF DISTRICT ADR CENTER, KARNAL LAID MISSING GIRL RESTORED WITH THE INTERVENTION OF DISTRICT LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY, PANCHKULA

Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.K. Mittal, Judge, Feeling aggrieved due to inaction of the police officials to trace his minor Punjab & Haryana High Court laid the foundation daughter, the complainant approached District Legal Services Authority, stone of District Alternative Dispute Resolution Panchkula and reported that despite taking thousands of rupees on the pretext (ADR Centre) at Judicial Complex, Karnal on 27th of taxi and paper charges, the police did not recover his daughter, who had been July, 2013, in the esteemed presence of Hon'ble taken away by a person known to him. Mr. Justice Nawab Singh, Judge, Punjab & Haryana High Court and Administrative Judge, Karnal Sh. Jaibir Hooda, CJM-cum-Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Sessions Division; Sh. Manjit Singh, District & Panchkula with the strenuous efforts of the Panel Advocates got recovered his Sessions Judge cum- Chairman District legal minor daughter. The complainant expressed his gratitude to the Authority by Services Authority, Karnal; Sh. Deepak Gupta, Member Secretary, Haryana State writing a letter. Legal Services Authority; judicial officers and other officers of District Administration.

Later, in a function organized at District Bar, Karnal, Hon'ble Justice Mittal explained the concept of the ADR and told the audience that the idea behind establishing the ADR Centre is to deliver speedy justice outside the adjudicatory process of the regular courts. In order to achieve this object, His Lordship called upon the lawyers to make the concept of amicable settlement a success, by shunning their apprehension that their practice would suffer if matters are settled peacefully. His lordship encouraged the lawyers to help in spreading information about the HALSA's initiatives for providing affordable Justice programme to all especially the under-privileged people.

Hon'ble Justice Nawab Singh laid stress upon the need for popularizing the concept of disposal of the matters through peaceful dialogues and equated the concept of ADR with the concept of Panchayat in earlier rural state of Haryana, where even the matters of serious nature were also settled by reconciliation. RAPE VICTIM HELPED BY DISTRICT LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY, PANCHKULA

HMJ S.K.Mittal On receiving information regarding registration of a case under Section 376 planting a tree IPC against a man, who had been raping his own daughter, the CJM-cum-Secretary & Addressing the of District Legal Services Authority, Panchkula Sh. Jaibir Singh Hooda through the Media Panel Advocate approached the victim and her mother and provided them with all the legal aid and services under Model Prosecution Scheme as required by them. REGULAR LEGAL LITERACY CAMPS (LLC) BEING ORGANIZED PHOTO GALLERY OF SPECIAL CAMPS ORGANISED ON 27.7.2013 IN ENTIRE STATE OF ALL OVER HARYANA HARYANA TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT THE PROVISIONS OF MGNREGA

District Legal Services Authorities, in their respective Districts have been organizing Legal Awareness Camps regularly at various places including schools, colleges and villages including the remotest areas on every Sundays and holidays.

In these camps, the gathering is made aware about their fundamental rights, eligibility for free legal services and the various laws prevalent for the protection of rights of women and children.

Detailed lecturers are delivered on the subject of Right to Information Act, Child Labour, rights of juveniles, rights of senior citizens, concept of Permanent Lok Adalat, rights of disabled persons, child marriage, Consumer Protection Act and various help lines and legal aid clinics run by District Legal Services Authorities. Booklets published by HALSA and the pamphlets got At General Chopal, Rajpur village Sonipat At conference Hall of DRDA, Rohtak printed by the Authority describing briefly the functions and the benefits of Permanent Lok Adalat for Public Utility Services were also distributed amongst the gathering.

At Aanganwari Mahila Mandal Campus, Village Umari, Kurukshetra At village Uncha Gaon, Ballabgarh (Faridabad)

LLC organised in Govt. Sr. Sec. School, Village Legal Literacy Camp held on 11.8.2013 Bharokhan (Sirsa) on 8.7.2013 at Devigarh Road, Kaithal Special Legal Awareness Camps on MGNREGA 27.07.2013

On 27.07.2013, Special Legal Awareness Camps were organized to create mass awareness amongst villagers about their rights and enlightenments available to them under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in simple vernacular language.

They were told that the Act provides for 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every house hold in the rural areas whose adult member by application volunteer to do unskilled manual work. They were also explained about the procedure to apply for the same. At Govt. School, (Yamuna Nagar) At village Kamalpur, District Rewari Mobile Legal Literacy Camps/Rural Lok Adalats through Publicity Vehicles Out of 24 Day Night Camps o r g a n i z e d b y D i s t r i c t As per the schedule fixed by Haryana State Legal Services Authority, Administration, Kaithal since Rural Lok Adalats/Legal Awareness Camps at various places including schools September, 2012, District Legal and collages were organized in District Faridabad from 16.7.2013 till 31.7.2013 Services Authority, Kaithal has participated in 22 camps. through Publicity Vehicles of HALSA i.e. Mobile Van/Swaraj Mazda.

Legal Aid Booth at Day Night Camp in Mobile village Kalasar (Kaithal) on 12.7.2013 Rural Lok Adalat 3145 persons have And been benefitted in these Legal Literacy Camp camps by DLSA, Kaithal providing them with Free District Faridabad Legal Services. Legal Aid Booth at Day Night Camp in village Harnola (Kaithal) on 26.7.2013 Similarly, 11 Legal Literacy Camps were DLSA, Rewari participated in the Night Halt Camp organized by District held through Mobile Bolero Van during Administration on 30.7.2013 at village Pali. 1.8.2013 to 15.8.2013 by Legal Aid Counsels/Para Legal Volunteers by District DLSA IN TRAINING PROGRAMME ON IMPLEMENTATION OF Legal Services Authority, Rewari. One Rural Lok Adalat was also organized on 11.8.2013 at DISTRICT DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN KAITHAL village Bhalki. Village Akera on 3.8.2013 (Rewari) 3 days training programme on implementation of District Disaster Management plan was organized by Special Legal Literacy Camp organized for Officials at Grass Root Level District Administration, Kaithal in association with by DLSA, Palwal on 13.7.2013 Haryana Institute of Public Administration and Department of Revenue and Disaster Management from 5 to 7.8.2013 in which the implementation plan of

About 250 persons Disaster Management for the district was explained. Sh. Ravinder Singh, Co-ordinator, DLSA, Kaithal i n c l u d i n g P a n c h e s , addressing the participants Sarpanches and Aanganwari The training was also attended by the team of F e m a l e w o r k e r s w e r e DLSA in which about 50 Panel Advocates and PLVs participated. The training apprised about the services programme was very useful to meet any sudden unforeseen Disaster. provided by the Authority and IRREGULARITIES FOUND IN MID DAY MEALS BY DLSA, YAMUNANAGAR the entitlement criteria. -MATTER TAKEN UP WITH HIGHER AUTHORITY Sh. Jaibir Singh Hooda, CJM-cum-Secretary, DLSA made visits to some of the Free Legal Services by DLSAs in Day Night Camps/Night Halts government schools in district Yamuna Nagar and found that the food served in mid day organized by Distt. Adm. of respective Districts meals was being cooked in un-hygienic environment. Similar type of problem was noticed by Sh. Y.P.S.Sidhu, Coordinator, DLSA, As per the directions issued by HALSA, DLSAs through its team of panel Yamuna Nagar on his visit to Government Sr. Sec. School, Model Colony, Yamuna Nagar Advocates and PLVs have been joining District Administration in the Day Night on 18.8.2013. The school is run by Anganwari workers. Camps/ Night Halts organized by them by installing legal aid booth, where legal The copy of the letter has been forwarded to the concerned Authority of District services are provided on the spot. Administration and the matter is also being taken up with Higher Authorities. VISITS TO SHELTER HOME FOR UNDER PRIVILEGED STATISTICAL INFORMATION IN THE STATE OF HARYANA AND FOR DIFFERENTLY ABLED PERSONS STATEMENT SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF THE ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY HARYANA STATE LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY (JULY, 2013) District Legal Services Authorities through its District & Sessions Judges-cum- Chairmen and Chief Judicial Magistrates-cum-Secretaries have been making regular NO. OF CASES DISPOSED IN THE PERMANENT LOK ADALAT (PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICES) fortnightly visits to Shelter Homes and Observation Homes in order to enquire into the living conditions of the inmates and to ensure that the they are provided with humane District Pending Fresh Cases Tran. Postal Supply of Public Hospital Insurance Banking Housing Pendency environment and the atmosphere to lead their life with dignity. Cases Inst. Settled Power Cons.

They are also educated of their legal rights and entitlements by delivering Ambala 195 44 87 - 63 3 - - - 21 - 152 exhaustive lectures on different legal topics. Now legal aid clinics are being opened in the Home for Sr. Citizen and Aged People to provide them with speedy legal services. Bhiwani 182 104 45 - 26 11 2 3 1 1 1 241

Fatehabad 52 11 31 - 1 28 1 - 1 - - 32

Faridabad 421 81 89 - 33 29 3 - 12 9 3 413

Gurgaon 584 93 73 1 2 14 - - 44 1 11 604

Hissar 156 11 12 - - 4 - - 8 - - 155

Jind 18 22 3 - - 2 - - - 1 - 37

Jhajjar 87 1 13 - - 11 - - - 2 - 75 Sh. Jagdeep Jain, D&SJ-cum-Chairman, DLSA, Rewari addressing the grievances of Sr. Sh. S.C.Goyal, D&SJ-cum-Chairman, DLSA, Fatehabad on his visit to Citizens on his visit to Asthakunj - Home for Aged & Infirms on 31.7.2013 Sr. Citizen Clubs, Bagwan, Jagjiwanpura on 21.8.2013 Karnal 271 27 40 - 16 2 3 - - 16 3 258

Kaithal 60 13 16 - 13 1 1 - - 1 - 57

Kkr 292 99 30 - 23 2 - - 5 - - 361

Nuh 132 24 39 - - 6 - 2 29 2 - 117

Narnaul 18 60 9 - - 3 - - 1 4 1 69

Palwal 48 9 13 - 2 3 2 1 3 2 - 44

Pkl 872 248 85 - 81 - - - 3 1 - 1035 Sh. Lalit Batra, D&SJ-cum-Chairman, DLSA, Kurukshetra alongwith Sh.R.S.Dhanda, CJM/Secy. Sh. J.R. Chauhan, D&SJ, Bhiwani alongwith Sh.A.K.Sharma, CJM/Secy. DLSA on their visit to Institute for Deaf and Dumb-Saarthak on 24.7.2013 DLSA on their visit to Bal Sewa Aasharam, Anathalya on 26.8.2013 Panipat 61 86 18 - 15 1 - - 1 1 - 129

Rohtak 226 36 22 - 1 1 2 - 1 17 - 240

Rewari 60 20 20 - 1 3 4 2 4 3 3 60

Sirsa 91 36 34 - 11 8 3 - 2 4 6 93

Sonipat 138 25 36 - 22 5 2 - - 7 - 127

Y.Nagar 36 56 17 - 13 - - - - 4 - 75

Sh. Narinder Kumar Mittal, D&SJ-cum-Chairman, DLSA, Narnaul on his visit to Sh. A.K.Jain, D&SJ-cum-Chairman, DLSA, Hissar on his visit to the Institution run Total 4000 1106 732 1 323 137 23 8 115 97 28 4374 School-cum-Shelter Home in Mohalla Kharkhari on 27.8.2013 by Distt. Red Cross Society for visually handicapped and blind children NO. OF CASES SETTLED IN LOK ADALAT, DAILY LOK ADALAT, RURAL LOK NO. OF LEGAL AID BENEFICIARIES IN COURT BASED LEGAL SERVICES, IN ADALAT AND MACT IN EACH DISTRICT (JULY, 2013) LEGAL AID CLINICS AND NO. OF LITERACY PROGRAMMES ORGANIZED IN EACH DISTRICT IN THE STATE OF HARYANA(JULY, 2013)

District No. of Cases NO. OF CASES DISPOSED OFF MACT District Beneficiaries Legal Aid Clinic Literacy Programme taken up in in Special Daily Lok Adalat Total Cases Amount in Court Based Application Beneficiary No.of Seminar Beneficiary Lok Adalat Lok Adalat Lok Adalat /Rural Lok settled Award Legal Services Adalat Ambala 45 47 47 9 469 Ambala 2203 13 2070 77 2160 - - Bhiwani 19 456 525 13 390 Bhiwani 538 39 199 71 309 - - Faridabad 7 1051 1051 34 2430 Faridabad 162 2 114 18 134 - - Fatehabad 102 - - 8 197 Fatehabad 252 7 196 2 205 - - Gurgaon 1 - - - - Gurgaon 2860 - 2855 - 2855 - - Hissar 40 3554 2873 8 594 Hissar 567 2 468 42 512 - -

Jhajjar 5 267 243 4 158 Jhajjar 172 - 57 74 131 - - Jind 8 359 359 16 575 Jind 463 - 332 92 424 - - Kurukshetra 27 290 269 7 252 Kurukshetra 220 13 56 16 85 - - Karnal 40 168 39 10 228 Karnal 421 16 348 39 403 - - Kaithal 18 1574 1574 8 445 Kaithal 426 8 329 15 352 - - Narnaul 12 794 794 11 947 Narnaul 446 11 273 - 284 - - Nuh 1 11 11 3 90 Nuh 112 7 56 - 63 4 - Palwal 12 409 409 6 90 Palwal 125 1 94 - 95 - - Panipat 44 525 428 5 500 Panipat 332 16 135 42 193 - - Panchkula 47 272 272 8 309 Panchkula 118 - 93 - 93 - - Rewari 9 101 101 11 308 Rewari 244 22 125 - 147 9 1198000 Rohtak 56 202 152 33 1533 Rohtak 401 - 292 17 309 - - Sonipat 37 651 651 10 393 Sonipat 291 - 162 74 236 - - Sirsa 32 1389 1389 13 410 Sirsa 479 19 414 - 433 - - Y.Nagar 9 668 668 6 198 Y.Nagar 507 10 407 16 433 - - High Court Legal 78 - - - - Total 11339 186 9075 595 9856 13 1198000 Ser. Committee Total 649 12788 11855 223 10516 News Cutting News Cutting