LEGAL LITERACY CAMPAIGN IN UTTAR PRADESH UNDER ACCESS TO JUSTICE (A2J) PROJECT EXTENSION PROPOSAL TO COMPLETE DISTRICT BARABANKI (2017-2018) By Centre for People's Participation, Transparency and Accountability (CPTA) Deen Dayal Upadhayay State Institute of Rural Development, U.P. Bakshi Ka Talab, Lucknow- 226202 Phone 05212- 298291, 298292 Fax 05212- 298291 Email- [email protected], [email protected] Website: www.sirdup.in UP , Project Team Dr. O.P. Pandey Joint Director/ Project Director Dr. Raj Kishor Extension Training Officer Anuj Dubey Project Staff TABLE OF CONTENT S. Topics Page No. No. 1 Legal Literacy Campaign 1-3 Project: An Overview 2 Geographical Coverage of Legal 4-11 Literacy Campaign-Pilot Project (First Round) 3 Justification of Extension of 12 project in Rest 05 Blocks of Barabanki 4 Extension Proposal of Legal 13-19 Literacy Campaign 1 Legal Literacy Campaign Project: An Overview Active and meaningful participation of general masses in „governance, administration, decision making and developmental process‟ is possible only when they have functional knowledge of systems, laws, rules, procedures, authorities and forum of governance. Democracy ruling system is defined as “of, by and for the people” process. The logicity of this formula is due foundation and scale of success of democratic governance. People‟s regarding participation in governance, administration, decision making and developmental process is only possible when they are having appropriate and functional practical knowledge of Systems, Laws, Rules, Procedure, Authorities and Forums of governance. Public hearings and timely result oriented grievance redressal are the measures of the effectiveness of democratic governance. Undoubtedly elaborate institutional/structural and procedural arrangements have been made in this regard, but people can not avail optimum benefits of this elaborate arrangement unless they have sufficient and functional knowledge about it. Till then there shall remain a question mark on the utility of such a huge structure. Rule of Law is the soul of democratic governance system. Unarbitrariness and reasonableness of administrative and developmental processes, is possible only under the rule of law. Protection and safe guard of the interests of the deprived, weaker and poor sections of society and minorities can be ensured in the rule of law alone. 1 | Extension Proposal to Complete District Barabanki ( 2 0 1 7 - 18) Fortunately, India is one rare country where we have comprehensive legal framework for regulation of even smaller issues/aspects. We have a very exhaustive written Constitution which provides for guarantee of Fundamental Rights and Basic Human Rights, and leaves very little room for ambiguities in these matters. But to enjoy the fruits and avail the protection of such an elaborate and written constitutional, legal and administrative frame work, it is imperative that the common masses have adequate and functional knowledge of those Fundamental and Basic Human Rights, Entitlement Based Rights, Procedures and Process to avail those rights & entitlements and the Forums and Authorities to approach to claim those rights and entitlements. Rights Based Entitlements Approach has come into vogue for the last few decades. Special laws and rules have been enacted to provide for various entitlements and facilities, as a result whereof common man can claim those entitlements and facilities as Legal Rights in the Courts of Law. Evidently people need & to be made aware of various aspects of such Laws & Rules, Procedures & Processes, Forums & Authoriters to get the benefits of those laws & rules. It has now become imperative to educate the mass public about these new initiatives and arrangements. Even otherwise also informed citizenry is an pre-requisite for the success of democracy, which can make informed choices on various issues as and when they arise. Keeping this in mind, perhaps, the Ministry of Law & Justice, Govt. of India, in collaboration with UNDP, under its Access To Justice Project (A2J), has commissioned this unique innovative programme of 'Legal Literacy in Uttar Pradesh' and has entrusted this task to the SIRD U.P. Initially, a Pilot is carried out in 10 Development Blocks of District Barabanki. The objective of the pilot is two-fold : – (i) spreading legal literacy & awareness among general masses to access justice delivery system; and (ii) to avail various entitlements created by the Government of India and/or State Government through various social legislations, laws & rules. 2 | Extension Proposal to Complete District Barabanki ( 2 0 1 7 - 18) On the basis of the pilot a „Replicable Module of Legal literacy‟ will be prepared which, after necessary customization, may be adopted in various parts of the country. For the pilot, SIRD has carried out a Baseline Survey, identified Critical Gaps, fixed Bench Marks and prepared 07 IEC Booklets, 10 Posters, 08 Leaflets, 03 Brochures, 01 Training Module and 01 FAQs and has further prepared Audio Visuals Material including 04 Docudramas, 05 Street Plays, 02 Short Films and 01 Theme Song. SIRD has prepared and drawn a very comprehensive campaign strategy in which all 779 Gram Panchayats are covered for „Mass IEC Campaign‟ by well equipped „Legal Literacy Rath‟ and 100 „Intensive IEC Events‟ of 03 to 04 hours duration each at a central place; preferably market place/weekly Haats in a group of 07 to 08 Gram Panchayats. 3 | Extension Proposal to Complete District Barabanki ( 2 0 1 7 - 18) 2 Geographical Coverage of Legal Literacy Campaign - Pilot Project (First Round) 2.1 Geographical Coverage (in terms of States, Districts, Blocks, Panchayats) In Barabanki District, there are 15 development blocks, but in first round SIRD has covered only 10 development Blocks, the details are given below:- District Name of Sl. Block: Total Selected Total Total Nyay Training Name GPs Blocks Villages Panchayats Institute (Nos) & GPs (Nos) (Nos) (ETCs) under Project (Yes= Y) 1 Banki 62 Y 2 Masauli 56 Y 3 Dewa 88 Y 4 Harakh 76 Y 5 Fatehpur 99 Y 6 Haidergarh 72 Y 7 Dariyabad 69 - DIRD 8 Suratganj 87 - Barabanki 1841 136 Barabanki 9 Siddhaur 77 Y 10 Pure Dalai 46 - 11 Nindura 88 Y 12 Trivediganj 66 Y 13 Ram Nagar 76 Y Sirauli - 14 58 Ghauspur 15 Banikodar 56 - Total 15 1076 779 1841 136 4 | Extension Proposal to Complete District Barabanki ( 2 0 1 7 - 18) 2.2 Map of Barabanki 5 | Extension Proposal to Complete District Barabanki ( 2 0 1 7 - 18) 2.3 Timeline of First Phase (As per work plan submitted) S. Activity Planned Actual Status Remarks No. a Training Sep, 2015 to 05 May, 2016 Completed Annexure-I Programmes for May, 2016 to 18 Nov, Village Level 2016 Resource Persons(First round 3 days) b Conducting Nov, 2015 to 05 April, 2016 Completed Annexure-II Community Level May, 2017 to 23 Dec, IEC Campaigns 2016 c Training July, 2016 to 26 Dec, 2016 Completed Annexure-III Programmes for March, 2017 to 31 Jan, 2017 Village Level Resource Persons(Second round 2 days) 6 | Extension Proposal to Complete District Barabanki ( 2 0 1 7 - 18) Annexure-I (a) Training Details From 05 May, 2016 to 18 Nov, 2016 SIRD has organized 32 first round training programmes for Village Level Resource Persons (VLRPs), the details are given below:- S. Block Name Date of Training No. of Target No of Actual No. Participants Participants 1 Deva 1) 05-07 May, 2016 50 48 2) 10-12 May, 2016 50 43 3) 12-14 May, 2016 50 42 Deva + Banki 4) 17-19 May, 2016 50 48 2 Banki 5) 19-21 May, 2016 50 47 6) 24-26 May, 2016 50 51 3 Masauli 7) 26-28 May, 2016 56 69 8) 01-03 June ,2016 56 56 4 Harakh 9) 07-09 June ,2016 50 43 10) 14-16 June ,2016 50 42 11) 16-19 June ,2016 52 28 5 Fatehpur 12) 23-25 July, 2016 50 49 13) 26-28 July, 2016 50 48 14) 02-04 August, 2016 50 48 15) 06-08 August, 2016 48 58 6 Sidhaur 16) 29-31 August, 2016 50 48 17) 01-03 Sep, 2016 50 41 18) 06-08 Sep, 2016 50 31 19) 08-10 Sep, 2016 42 23 7 Haidergarh 20) 12-14 Sep, 2016 50 33 21) 20-22 Sep, 2016 50 32 22) 20-22 Sep, 2016 44 39 8 Trivediganj 23) 22-24 Sep, 2016 44 29 24) 26-28 Sep, 2016 44 24 9 Nindura 25) 04-06 Oct, 2016 50 47 26) 13-15 Oct, 2016 50 35 7 | Extension Proposal to Complete District Barabanki ( 2 0 1 7 - 18) 27) 18-20 Oct, 2016 50 47 10 Ramnagar 28) 20-22 Oct, 2016 50 39 29) 24-26 Oct, 2016 50 35 30) 27-29 Oct, 2016 50 43 11 Trivediganj 31) 16-18 Nov, 2016 50 57 12 Sidhaur, 32) 16-18 Nov, 2016 50 47 Haidergarh, Nindura Total 1614 1370 8 | Extension Proposal to Complete District Barabanki ( 2 0 1 7 - 18) Annexure-II (b) IEC Campaign at Community Level Implementation of the intensive events is preceded by a formal public announcement of the event across all the villages compassing the target of GPs (in a given cluster) along with distribution of IEC materials in the villages. In addition, dedicated semi-intensive campaigns (using Docu-drama and/or Short films) of 1-to-1.5 hours duration are also being undertaken at the village level, with a view to reach-out to the community at the household level. SIRD has completed 100 IEC intensive campaigns and 610 semi-intensive campaigns under the project. Campaign Activity carried out in the month of April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December 2016, is shown in the table given below: IEC Months (2016) Total Campaign Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Intensive 9 10 10 10 10 10 8 17 16 100 Campaign Semi- 57 63 60 60 57 58 60 105 90 610 Intensive Campaign Total 66 73 70 70 67 68 68 122 106 710 9 | Extension Proposal to Complete District Barabanki ( 2 0 1 7 - 18) Annexure-III (c) Details of Second Round (2 days) Training Programmes Organized From 26th Dec, 2016 to 31st Jan, 2017 SIRD has organized 27 second round refresher training programmes for trained Village Level Resource Persons (VLRPs).