Access to justice vital for protection of rights of citizens, says Executive Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Legal Services Authority Justice Magrey
Srinagar: High Court (HC) judge and Executive Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Legal Services Authority, Justice AliMuhammad Magrey Saturday said that access to justice was important for ensuring the protection ofrights of the citizens under various enactments and social welfare schemes.
Inaugurating a mega legal awareness-cum-services camp at Mammer, Kangan in Ganderbal, JusticeMagrey stressed for making every endeavour and effort to make availability of “justice for all” a realityas per the mandate of the constitution.
He urged all the public authorities and semi-government registered institutions to connect themarginalised and targeted sections of the society living below the poverty live with different socialwelfare and poverty alleviation schemes of the Government of India and J&K government as well ofdifferent banks and financial institutions.
Justice Magrey said that he expected all public officers and public servants to be on “24-hour service” tothe society.
The camp was organised by District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Ganderbal with theobjective of making people in general and poor and weaker sections of the society in particular aware oftheir entitlements under the various enactments and welfare schemes in compliance with theconstitutional mandate of “access to justice for all”.
The camp had an exhibition of around 40 stalls of different departments, NGOs and establishmentsthrough which the necessary and useful information was furnished and services rendered to themarginalised people.
Ayushman Bharat Golden Cards, job cards, registration certificates, hearing aids, wheel chairs, uniforms,books, school bags, mulberry plants, forest saplings, chaff-cutters and trout farm construction workorders were distributed among the eligible beneficiaries.
Chairman DLSA and Principal District andSessions Judge Ganderbal, Muhammad YousufWani and DC GanderbalShafkatIqbal also spoke on theoccasion.
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