Tele-Law Mobile App launched in 75,000 village panchayats

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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.</p>
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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.</p>
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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. </p>
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He appealed to the Lawyers to join the Tele-Law movement and provide legal guidance and consultation as basic steps to legal aid services.</p>
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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.</p>
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 He also encouraged the participants to download the Citizens’ Tele-Law Mobile App for optimizing the citizen-centric justice delivery mechanism.</p>
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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.</p>
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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.</p>
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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.</p>