Union Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju on Saturday launched the Citizen’s Tele-Law Mobile App for 75,000 panchayats across all states to provide people at the village level tele-video conferencing facilities to get legal advice from a Panel Lawyer for an early redressal of their grievances.

The consultation is available free of cost to those entitled to free legal aid under Section 12 of Legal Service Authority, whereas others can avail of the service at a mere Rs 30 per consultation.

The event, part of the 75 years Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations, is aimed to achieve  Sabka Prayas Sabka Nyay under the PM Modi’s Digital India mission. 

He appealed to the Lawyers to join the Tele-Law movement and provide legal guidance and consultation as basic steps to legal aid services.

He appreciated the team effort of all frontline functionaries that has enabled Tele-Law to cross the 12 lakh + beneficiary mark and exhorted the ethos of Sabka Prayas, Sabko Nyaya to facilitate the last mile delivery of justice and legal aid services.

 He also encouraged the participants to download the Citizens’ Tele-Law Mobile App for optimizing the citizen-centric justice delivery mechanism.

Minister of State of Law and Justice Prof. S.P. Singh Baghel highlighted that the Citizens’ Tele-Law Mobile App would be a first of its kind wherein as part of our constitutional mandate for providing equal opportunities before law, every citizen would now be entitled to have access to a lawyer on the touch of a finger.

He also emphasized that the features of the Mobile App would be available in form of e-tutorial in all scheduled languages and urged the frontline functionaries to ensure its maximum outreach.

The e-interface platform was launched in 2017 by the Department of Justice, to strengthen the pre-litigation mechanism in the country. This is operational in 51,434 Common Service Centres across 50,000 Gram Panchayats in 633 districts.