Tele-Law Free Legal Consultation at 1000 CSC’s (Common Service Center) in Bihar & Uttar Pradesh

Sarkari Yojana Date: 06/16/2017
The central government has started Tele-Law facility to provide free
legal consultation across 1000 common service centers across Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
The initiative has been started on pilot basis and will be expanded in
phased manner after understanding the challenges and making the
necessary corrections.

Objective of Tele-Law Scheme

Tele-Law scheme is aimed at making legal aid easily accessible to the marginalized communities and citizens living in rural areas.
The scheme would provide free legal consultation to such people through
500 common service centers each in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

One of the main objective of the scheme is to ensure access to justice and empowerment of the poor. There are about 2.5 Lakh common service centers across the country which are capable of providing internet based government services to citizens.

Implementation of Tele-Law


The
scheme would be implemented by the Ministry of Law and Justice which
has partnered with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to
provide legal consultations through CSC’s at panchayat level.
Legal advice would be provided to the individual seekers through video
conferencing by the lawyers.

RELATED: How to Find Common Service Center

Under the Tele-Law scheme, free of cost legal consultation would be provided to individual seeker. The government would
soon also launch Tele-Law portal to provide complete information about
the initiative. The portal would be accessible across the CSC network.

A panel of lawyers who would be available to provide free legal advice through video conferencing
would be provided by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA). The
government may later connect law school clinics, District Legal Service
Authorities, voluntary service providers and Non-Government Organisations working on legal aid and empowerment to the CSC’s to strengthen the initiative.

How to Find CSC (Common Service Center) in Your City

Common Services Centers (CSCs) are a strategic cornerstone of the Digital India programme to deliver various services to the villages in India.

The common service centers enables the three vision area of the Digital India Programme as following

Digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen.

Governance on demand.

Digital empowerment for citizens.

Several
e-Services are available at common service centers across the country.
Below is the procedure to find a CSC service center in your city.
http://www.apnacsconline.in/csc-locator/

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