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uuw h lk{kj dk r FOUNDATION OF ADR CENTRE LAID IN DISTRICT KARNAL k f ªh; e V ' " k k u j N a n o ti i o s n s a i l M Le y ga l L iterac WHOLE TIME SECRETARIES IN THE STATE OF HARYANA NewsletterNewsletter Issue - August, 2013 Sr.No. Name of Secretary Headquarter Additional Charge Contact Patron-in-Chief of DLSA Number 1. Sh.Rajender Singh Kurukshetra Ambala & Kaithal 08813888507 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul Chief Justice, High Court, Punjab & Haryana 2. Sh.Jaibir Singh Panchkula Yamuna Nagar 08558855207, 09416951009 3. Mrs.Rachna Gupta Jhajjar Rohtak 09968699988, 08930222125 4. Ms.Narinder Kaur Gurgaon Mewat at Nuh 09818609006 Executive Chairman 5. Sh.Narender Hisar 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 Panipat Karnal & Sonipat 09896499945 9. Sh.Amit K.Sharma Bhiwani Jind 08930637171 Member Secretary Joint Member Secretary 10. Sh. Baseshar Singh Rewari 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, Chandigarh - 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, Buria (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.