Legal aid: Section 39A of the Constitution of India provides for free legal aid and calls on the State to promote justice based on equal opportunity. [6] Legal aid is granted to the needy before the lower courts and up to the Supreme Court. NALSA also operates various law school legal aid clinics in order to achieve the goal of providing effective legal competence. Various private institutions and law firms also provide legal aid to those in need, so the legal aid movement in India has grown considerably. Legal awareness enables people to demand justice, accountability and effective remedies at all levels. Legal needs always become crisis-oriented because their ignorance prevents them from anticipating legal problems and contacting a lawyer in time for advice. This amplifies the impact of legal problems and difficulties when they arise. To combat legal ignorance, the central government adopted the National Legal Literacy Mission in 2005. But there are some obstacles in implementing the mission. The project aims to study the mission and its flaws in depth. The assumption is that, despite this pragmatic measure by the government, the intended objective has not been achieved. Therefore, in the detailed study of the mission in light of its objective, I try to make an evaluative analysis of the mission.
“People who use the legal system need to be able to guide themselves through a process that they understand… And at appropriate times along the way, the pursuit of legal education is the essential component of legal assistance to the masses. Even before the NLLM was launched, the pursuit of legal competence was recognized in India. From the beginning, the path of legal jurisdiction took the form of legal rights. It was obvious that the importance of the law is neglected when only privileged strata of society have access to it. It was further stated that the law was meaningless if people did not have equal access to its protection. In order to ensure justice for all, protect the rights of individuals and promote the legal strengthening of society, it is always necessary to raise public awareness of their rights and prerogatives. For the same reason, this awareness can be attributed to the fact that it is easier for the injured person to quickly access available remedies to remedy maladministration by authorities such as the police, the executive and the judiciary.
Moreover, awareness of one`s own legal rights paves the way for the participation of the masses in the decision-making process. The State Legal Services Authority of India has requested all District Legal Authority Secretaries, the Director of Social Justice and Empowerment and the Director of Indian Departments of Women and Child Development, with the support of District Child Protection Officers, social welfare officers and district protection officers, to read the books published by this agency on social and legal issues affecting women. A number of books have been sent to them with the request to publish a sufficient number of these books for distribution to the women attending these courses. In this context, courses on women`s legal competence are organized by the district authorities for legal services. India is distinguished by the fact that it is the largest functioning democracy in the world. Since independence, India has grown and developed through a democratic system of government that includes self-government of the people, which clearly means that citizens are not only the components of the country, but the foundation of democracy on which the entire structure of our legal framework rests. The objectives of legal literacy programmes can be divided into three types. Namely, educational, competitive and critical. In “Reading the Legal World,” author Laird Hunter expects legal literacy to achieve: “People who use the legal system must be able to guide themselves through a process that they understand and recognize at appropriate times along the way that they have the legal right or responsibility to exercise or assume it; recognize when a problem or conflict is a legal conflict and when a legal solution is available; know how to take the necessary steps to avoid problems and, when this is not possible, how to help yourself adequately; know how and where to find information about the law and be able to find information available to them, know when and how to obtain appropriate legal assistance; Trust that the justice system will remedy the situation and understand the process clearly enough to see that justice has been served. Depending on the objectives, there may be numerical targets for legal literacy programs.
4. Empower the poor. A nation`s legal system plays an important role in empowering the poor, as it gives them rights, powers, privileges and immunities, as well as a strong judicial system that can give effect to these legal claims. The empowerment of objects can only come about if the target group (in this case the poor) is informed of their claims in a legal system. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) took note of this step at the international level and hosted the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor in 2005. The Commission recognized that lack of understanding of legal rights and obligations is a barrier to access to justice for the poor9 The section of the Constitution of India provides guidance to states to ensure that the functioning of the legal system promotes justice based on equality of opportunity. It instructs States to provide free legal aid through appropriate laws or systems. It also calls on them to ensure that no citizen is denied the opportunity to obtain justice on the basis of economic or other disabilities. When people are aware of their rights and duties, it becomes much easier to ensure justice and balance the different interests of a society. The increase in legal jurisdiction eventually evolves towards transparent and accountable government that is truly grounded in the “rule of law.” A fundamental premise of our Code of Criminal Procedure is: “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” 3. Understanding the scope of human rights – Establishment of legal aid offices. To educate the rural masses about their rights and duties in a welfare society.
Help should be sought from legal academics, professors, lawyers and other professionals who can contribute to a better understanding of the laws and how they work. People must be informed of their political, civil, social, economic and cultural rights. Purpose of the mission. NLLM was established with the aim of providing legal education to disadvantaged people, including people with disabilities. The purpose of the mission was to educate people about law, legal terminology and legal rights. An in-depth review of the NLLM`s structure had the following objectives: Legal literacy means raising awareness of their legal rights, the term “law” elicits a variety of reactions and reactions. The development sector, at least in India, is on the one hand extremely energetic in judicial proceedings, but on the other hand it is also poorly informed about the legal system. The myth of law and legal terminology is perhaps the main reason for ongoing litigation and lack of enforcement measures, especially in rural areas, legal competence is generally understood as knowledge of the primary level of law.
When citizens, especially marginalized or disadvantaged groups, know what the law has to offer, they can identify and challenge injustices much more vigorously. Section 39A of the Constitution of India provides for equality of justice and free legal aid – The State shall ensure that the functioning of the legal system promotes justice based on equality of opportunity and, in particular, shall provide free legal aid through appropriate laws or systems or in any other manner to ensure that a citizen has no means of ensuring justice on economic or other grounds. Disabilities are refused. This article emphasizes that free legal aid is an inalienable part of a “reasonable, fair and just” trial, because without it, a person with economic or other disabilities would be deprived of the opportunity to obtain justice. The right to free legal assistance is therefore clearly an essential element of a “reasonable, fair and just trial for a person accused of a crime, and must be implicitly included in the guarantee of article 21 of the Constitution. It is a constitutional right of any accused who, for reasons such as poverty, need or freedom to live without isolation, is unable to hire a lawyer and receive legal services, and the State has a mandate to provide counsel to an accused when the circumstances of the case and the needs of justice so require. provided, of course, that the accused does not object to the provision of such a lawyer.