Judiciary

 

 

The Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India has been implementing a project on ‘Access to Justice for Marginalized People’ with UNDP support. The interventions under the Project are focused on strengthening access to justice for the poor, particularly women, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes,and minorities. The Project seeks, on the one hand, to improve the institutional capacities of key justice service providers to enable them to effectively serve the poor and disadvantaged. On the other hand, it aims to directly empower the poor and disadvantaged men and women to seek and demand justice services.

 

 

    Needs assessment of Legal Services Authorities:

MARG was selected to conduct a needs assessment of Legal Services Authorities (LSAs) at the State, District and Taluka levels in the 7 Project States. MARG collected data from LSAs, analysed and presented it in the form of a draft report. Based on the inputs and comments from DoJ, and UNDP, MARG revised draft report.Revised report was circulated to 7 State Legal Services Authorities (SLSAs) for seeking their comments and inputs. Comments on LSA needs assessment report was discussed with the DoJ, UNDP and MARG.Based on the decision of NALSA and DoJ, LSA needs assessment report was sent to all SLSAs in the country for their comments and inputs.