Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Legal Aid Clinic

The Clinic undertakes the responsibilities of conducting the following activities:

• Promoting legal literacy through outreach programmes, organizing legal awareness camps, and conducting street plays on socio-legal issues. As part of these initiatives, legal awareness camps are organized in villages to educate people about their legal rights, with special emphasis on creating awareness among vulnerable sections of society, including women and children.
• Pre-litigation services, where assistance is provided to local community members in drafting representations, applications, and legal notices. The Clinic also makes efforts to resolve disputes amicably through mediation and conciliation.
• Regular visits to correctional homes to interact with inmates and provide guidance regarding the procedures for obtaining free legal aid. During these visits, students conduct face-to-face interactions with inmates, record their concerns, prepare reports based on these interactions, and submit them to the concerned authorities, thereby facilitating communication between inmates and the relevant authorities.
• Conducting awareness campaigns at the University's Book Fair stall on relevant social and legal issues in order to effectively reach a wider section of the public.
• Staging Nukaad Nataks on relevant and prominent social issues and portray them to the public in a vernacular language to spread awareness.
• Conducting gender sensitization and awareness programmes within the University.
• Conducting training workshops for students in the area of social justice advocacy.
• Conducting field research on various socio-legal issues.

The Clinic also provides free legal aid services and assistance at the University campus. The timings of the Clinic are as follows:

Dr. Pratyusha Das, Associate Professor is the Professor-in-Charge of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Legal Aid Clinic.

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