HIDAYATULLAH NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY LEGAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY Named after one of the great legal luminaries of India Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah, Hidayatullah National Law University was established in May 2003 by the Government of Chhattisgarh with a view to impart and advance legal education by engaging in teaching and research, and to develop among students a sense of responsibility to serve the society in the field of law by taking to advocacy and reforms in law and justice administration system. HNLU has completed the journey of more than one and half a decade and in such a short span of time, it has carved out a niche in the realm of legal education across India and the legacy is soaring towards newer heights day by day. HNLU is the first National Level Institute established in the new State of Chhattisgarh and the sixth Law University in the country. Hon’ble Chief Justice of High Court of Chhattisgarh, Shri P. R. Ramachandra Menon is the Chancellor of the University. Prof. (Dr.) V. C. Vivekanandan, former MHRD Chair Professor of IP Law at NALSAR University and also former Dean of the Rajiv Gandhi School of Law, IIT Kharagpur and School of Law, Bennett University is the Vice Chancellor of the University. Dr. Deepak Kumar Srivastava is the In Charge Registrar of the University. ABOUT THE LEGAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE Legal Aid – plays an important role in the legal profession and mandate of having national law schools was to have a testing ground for bold experiments in legal education. Hence, Hidayatullah National Law University, through its Legal and Social Services Committee strives to ensure justice by furthering the right to be heard and enlightening the students about the practicality of the functions of the complex government machinery. The passion and intellect of the Legal and Social Services Committee (LSSC) is to instil in individuals behaviour of attributing importance to the way we are governed. The aim of the committee has always been to ensure representation to the mass life and build a strong bond between those who are governed and those who govern them thus we focus on capacity building, empowerment of masses and creating awareness. COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE Prof. Dr. V.C. Vivekanandan Dr. Balwinder Kaur Dr. Priyanka Dhar Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Convenor Member Advisor Ms. Aditi Singh Mr. Pradeep Barman Dr. Parvesh Kumar Rajput Member Member Member Ms. Vinita Tripathi Mr. Atul S. Jaybhaye Member Member The committee is further supported by fifteen elected class representatives from each section of five undergraduate batches and one class representative from the postgraduate batch. Two among them are elected as the student convenor and student vice-convenor of the committee and are responsible for implementing the decisions taken by the committee. Membership to LSSC is open to all the students and they can join the committee as co-opts and volunteers to assist the committee in performance of its duties. LEGAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE : IN ACTION BLOOD DONATION CAMPS YOUTH CONFERENCE: AWARENESS CAMP Every year, the HNLU family reminisces A team of Legal and Social Services Committee one of its most effervescent members, Aanchal organised an awareness camp and conference in Singh of Batch VIII, who though lost her battle the neighbouring village of Sunderkhera at the with death, lives in every HNLUite in spirit. Government Higher Secondary School, on the And to commemorate this spirit of hers, the theme “Empower her for Change”. Aanchal Memorial Blood Donation Camp is The members dealt with legal aspects of Right held annually by the committee in collaboration to Education, Dowry Prohibition, Domestic with various organizations. Violence, Female foeticide, Child Labour and On 13th March, 2019, the Legal and Social Protection of Children from Sexual Offences. Services Committee organised a Blood An elaborate discussion took place on Donation Camp at the University Campus in Chhattisgarh Tonhi Pratadna Nivaran collaboration with Red Cross Society. In the Adhiniyam, 2005, institutions dealing with the same year on 5th of November the committee welfare of women and informed the students organised a Blood Donation Camp at the about various social and educational schemes University Campus in collaboration with Ram being run by the State Government of Krishna CARE Medical Sciences Pvt. Ltd., Chhattisgarh for providing benefits to the girl Department of Transfusion Medicine. students and law as a career. Both the events saw participation from faculty members, students and staff members of the University. A total of 250 Units of Blood were donated in the year 2019. LEGAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE : IN ACTION CONSTITUTIONAL LAW REGIONAL CONSULTATION AWARENESS CAMP The Legal and Social Services Committee An awareness camp was organized by Legal and represented the University at the 4th Regional Social Services Committee on Fundamental Consultation on Strengthening and Promoting Rights and Duties enshrined in the Indian Law School Clinics in India which was Constitution at the Government Higher organised by the JLU, School of Law in Secondary School, Sundarkera. The University collaboration with Jindal Global Law School in organised essay writing competition on the Bhopal. topic "Rights and duties of an Indian citizen in The aim of the consultation was to outline the the context of the Constitution", speech importance of legal aid clinics in Law Schools contest on the topic "The purpose, concept and and the issues that the law school clinics face importance of the Indian Constitution" and such as funding, faculty workload and role plays on Dowry and Eve teasing. academics credits. LEGAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE : IN ACTION AWARENESS CAMP ON ROLE OF FUND RAISERS DURING COVID- DLSA 19 An awareness campaign was organized by the The students of the committee have been Legal and Social Services Committee of the involved in raising funds to extend a helping Hidayatullah National Law University in hand to all those in need during the Covid-19 collaboration with the District Legal Services crisis. Mr. Divyansh Tiwari with the help of Authority, Raipur on “Role and Functioning of other students collected funds to help Mr. the DLSA” for the students of the university. Gouda who was stranded in Bhilai, The Hon’ble Secretary DLSA, Raipur Shri. Chhattisgarh. The fund so collected was utilised Umesh Kumar Upadhyay graced the occasion in buying Clothes and other basic necessities for as the key note speaker. During his address he Shri. Gouda. He also booked his ticket so that focused on the role that the legal aid services he may reach his home safely and without any authority plays in the society and its importance. further difficulty. The students came forward to Further he gave an insight into the functioning help Mr. Gokul Vaishnav the fruit shop vendor of the DLSA and shared his experiences as the at the University who was in financial distress secretary DLSA, Raipur. during the lockdown. The Committee has been involved in various fund raising initiatives in order to extend a helping hand to all those in need. LEGAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE : IN ACTION EXTENDING HELP TO AWARENESS CAMP ON SAFE MIGRANT LABOURS PRACTICES IN THE PANDEMIC The Legal and Social Services Committee in The aim of our community outreach program collaboration with the Center for Social Justice was to induce adoption of safe practices to (CSJ) worked towards providing relief to the prevent the spread of Covid-19. Our efforts migrant workers from the State of Chhattisgarh have been to encourage healthy practices such stranded in various parts of the country. The as hand hygiene, social distancing, breathing objective of the collaboration is to address the etiquette, along with identifying early signs of issues faced by them with respect to food, the disease. To facilitate access to protective shelter and conveyance to travel back to their masks the members have also been engaged in home state. distribution of mask. The masks which were With the help of CSJ a detailed database of distributed were made as per the government 8000 migrant workers from Chhattisgarh was norms and of right grade. prepared and the team contacted all the migrant workers stuck in Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal. Eventually there were all registered with the state government and returned safely to their homes. LEGAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE : IN ACTION COLLABORATIONS WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION MoU WITH YOURDOST Hidayatullah National Law University signed a The Legal and Social Services Committee Memorandum of Understanding with (LSSC) commemorated the International YourDost Health Solutions Pvt Ltd for Women’s Day by a mix of on-field and off-field providing online counselling to students to deal activities on the theme “Menstrual Health and with the emotional stress of their academic life Hygiene”. which has been aggravated during this pandemic period. The online wellness platform As a part of on field activity the committee can be accessed by students to reach out to organised an awareness camp in Ruabandha professional counsellors of the firm which will Basti of Bhilai on Menstrual Health and ensure confidentiality and privacy of the Hygiene. The members interacted with the students. women present at the occasion and learnt about the difficulties they face during menstruation. It The service provider will also be conducting was followed by a discussion with them about webinars and other programmes to help the safe practices to be followed. The members students to cope with tremendous stress they further engaged themselves in distribution of are undergoing at this time. The firm will also Sanitary Napkins to all of them in order to raise conduct offline programmes and meetings once awareness for using the same.