Goa State Legal Services Authority Volume 1, Issue 4 ………A Bi-Monthly Newsletter Activities: The Goa State Legal Services Authority, conducted PLV meet on 9 th August, 2018 at 4.30 p.m. onwards in the Conference hall of High Court Bar Association, Altinho, Panaji, Goa. Hon’ble Shri. Justice C. V. Bhadang, High court Legal Services Committee, spoke on the occasion and guided as to how they should work. Hon’ble Shri Justice C. V. Bhadang instructed that both the Secretaries of North Goa and South Goa, to arrange for joint refresher training programme for the Para Legal Volunteers. He asked the Para Legal Volunteers about the difficulties faced by them. One PLV stated that Awareness camp should be conducted in villages for the public to know about the facilities and schemes available to the public. The Authorities have taken note of the request to hold camps in remote villages. He also Suggested that public may be in small group should made aware about the importance of Mediation, Lok adalat, etc. Shri Sudhiir M. Deshpande, Member Secretary, Goa State Legal Services Authority hosted the said meet. Smt. Shabnam Shaikh, Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, North Goa and Shri. Cholu Gawas, Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, South Goa where also present for the meet. There were around 25 Para Legal Volunteers from both the Districts.
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Goa State Legal Services Authority Volume 1, Issue 4
………A Bi-Monthly Newsletter
Activities:
The Goa State Legal Services Authority, conducted PLV meet on 9th August,
2018 at 4.30 p.m. onwards in the Conference hall of High Court Bar Association,
Altinho, Panaji, Goa.
Hon’ble Shri. Justice C. V. Bhadang, High court Legal Services Committee,
spoke on the occasion and guided as to how they should work. Hon’ble Shri Justice
C. V. Bhadang instructed that both the Secretaries of North Goa and South Goa, to
arrange for joint refresher training programme for the Para Legal Volunteers. He
asked the Para Legal Volunteers about the difficulties faced by them. One PLV stated
that Awareness camp should be conducted in villages for the public to know about
the facilities and schemes available to the public. The Authorities have taken note of
the request to hold camps in remote villages. He also Suggested that public may be in
small group should made aware about the importance of Mediation, Lok adalat, etc.
Shri Sudhiir M. Deshpande, Member Secretary, Goa State Legal Services
Authority hosted the said meet. Smt. Shabnam Shaikh, Secretary, District Legal
Services Authority, North Goa and Shri. Cholu Gawas, Secretary, District Legal
Services Authority, South Goa where also present for the meet. There were around 25
Para Legal Volunteers from both the Districts.
Legal Literacy Club was inaugurated by the Taluka Legal Services Committee, Sanguem at
Government High School, Neturlim-Sanguem-Goa, on the 16th April, 2018 at 10.30 a.m. Around 90-100
participants including the dignitaries, students, teachers and staff were present for the programme. Para
Legal Volunteer, Shri Ram Velip, welcomed the gathering and gave introductory speech and highlighted
the main object of holding such type of camp in the different places of Sanguem Taluka and requested to
take the benefits of all the schemes provided by the District Legal Services to weaker section of the society.
Dr. Sruti Dessai, Medical Officer from the Government Primary Health Centre, Sanguem-Goa gave
talk on various diseases spreading by biting of various types of Mosquitoes and also briefly explained the
symptoms of it. She further stated that for good health every person should keep the surrounding
environment clean and not to store water in plastic containers, bottles, tyres, equipments etc. She further
informed that Mosquito bites can be prevented by the use of mosquito repellents such as nets, coils, mats
etc. and mosquito killing is yet another preventive method and also by doing mosquito control in every
couple of months. She gave information on various Government scheme like Din Dayal Yojna Scheme, Janaj
Suraksha Yojana Scheme, etc and also requested the students to take benefits of the Adolescence clinic to
solve their difficulties and also requested to make awareness of different schemes to their family members,
friends, neighbours, relative, villagers etc.
Advocate Miss Abhilasha Naik spoke on Free Legal Aid Services provided to the weaker and
marginalized sections of the society, Lok Adalats/National Lok Adalats for amicable settlement of disputes.
She further requested participants to make aware of said services to their friends, neighbours and relatives
in order to get the benefits of the scheme as per their entitlement. She also spoke on the procedure for the
registration of late Birth and Death and urged public to get the same registered.
Shri Putu Gaonkar gave vote of thanks and requested the participants to take benefit of the schemes
of Legal Services Authority and also urged the participants to make awareness of the scheme.
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Mediation Awareness Programme was organized by the Taluka Legal
Services Committee, Sanguem on the 5th May, 2018 at 9.30 a.m. at the Premises of
Civil and Criminal Court Building, Sanguem. Advocate V. Dessai, Retainer,
Advocate Miss Abhilasha Naik, Remand Advocate, Advocate Shri Marshall
Fernandes, Panel Lawyer and Shri Putu Gaonkar, along with 70-80 participants were
present for the programme. Anuradha Andrade Chairperson of the Taluka Legal
Services Committee, Sanguem, welcomed the gathering and gave an introductory
speech and briefly narrated the main object of holding the “Mediation Programme”
and further explained the importance of mediation process in resolving differences,
opportunity to talk openly and honestly about their concerns and issues.
Advocate Shri V. Dessai also gave a talk on the importance of mediation
wherein people can avail the facility of Mediation process and change their lifetime
tensions into happiness by resolving their disputes through Mediation and accepting
happiness in life as process of litigation is a lengthy process and the process of
Mediation is short. It is that process wherein “No one wins or no one loses” as the
parties come together amicably to resolve their differences between them.
Advocate Abhilash Naik briefly narrated the main object of holding such
types of mediation programmes in order to create awareness among the general
public about the existence of the mediation process.
Para Legal Volunteer, Shri Putu Gaonkar gave vote of thanks and function
was concluded.
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Legal Awareness Camp was held on Observance of World Day against Child Labour conducted on
the 12th June, 2018 at 11.00 a.m. at the premises of Shree Sharda English High School, Sanvordem, Sanguem-
Goa. Around 140-150 participants including the dignitaries, students, teachers and staff were present in the
said function. Advocate Mrs. Shubhangui G. Naik, Head Clerk welcomed the gathering and gave
introductory speech and highlighted the main object of holding such type of camp in every part Sanguem
Taluka under the jurisdiction of the Sanguem Court, is to create awareness amongst general public about
the law and services available to them and requested them to take the benefit of all the schemes provided
by the District Legal Services Authority.
Advocate Miss Abhilash Naik spoke on Child Labour (prohibition and regulation) Act. She further
spoke that labourers in order to earn money for their survival send their children for work by depriving
their rights to free and happy childhood and education. She submitted that as per law whoever employs
any child or permit any child to work will be punishable with imprisonment for a term not less than 3
months but which extend to one year or with fine which shall not be less than ten thousand rupees but
which may extend to twenty thousand rupees or with both. She requested the participants to inform their
neighbours to send their children to school for their better prospects. She briefly gave information on the
Industrial Dispute Act, Trade Union Act and Minimum Wages Act and also on Free Legal Aid Services.
Dr. Manmohan Dessai, Health Officer of Primary Health Centre, Kakoda, Curchorem spoke on
Vector borne diseases and showed posters/pictures to make the topic clear to participants. He briefly
narrated the symptoms of all the above mentioned diseases and also distributed pamphlets to the
participants.
Shri Shridhar Acharya, Extension Educator from the Government Primary Health Centre, Kakoda,
Curchorem gave talk on prevention of Mosquito breeding and further stated that for a good health every
person should keep the surrounding environment clean and also not to store water in plastic containers,
bottles, tyres, equipments etc. He further said that Mosquito bites can be prevented by the use of mosquito
repellents and also by Mosquito killing, and also by doing Mosquito control in the homes every couple of
months.
Ms. Joycy D’costa, Councilor from Government Primary Health Centre, Kakoda, Curchorem gave
talk on substance abuse i.e products which harms our body and explained briefly how a person become an
addict of the same by showing posters/pictures. She also gave information on various schemes available in
Curchorem Health Centre and requested students to take the benefits of Adolescence Clinic.
Session of questions and answers was conducted for about 45 minutes which was sufficiently
answered by the dignitaries.
Shri Putu Gaonkar gave vote of thanks and requested the participants to take benefit of the schemes
of Legal Services Authority.
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Legal Literacy camp on world
day against Child Labour was
organized by Taluka Legal Services
Committee Mormugao was held on
the 12th June, 2018 at 10.30 a.m. in the
premises of the Government High
School (Main) Vasco-Goa. Around 61
participants were present for the said
programme. Advocate Suresh Rao
attended the camp and spoke on
topic World Day Against Child
Labour.
Legal Literacy camp on observance
of world child Labour Day was held on the
12th June, 2018 at 10.30 a.m. at St. Anthony
High School, Margao-Goa. Around 34
participants were present for the said
programme. Smt. Auda Viegas (NGO) gave
a talk on issues pertaining to child Labour.
Drawing competition on the said topic child
labour was conducted and total number of
31 students participated in said competition.
1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winner were given
colour pencil sets.
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Legal Literacy Club of Taluka Legal Services Committee,
Quepem, had organized poster making competition on theme “ Lets
Kick out plastic from our life” at Our Lady Mother of Poor, High
School, Tilamol, and Quepem in coordination with the District Legal
Services Authority, Margao on the 09th June, 2018, from 11.00 a.m. to
12.30 p.m. Sixty students participated in the competition. The main
objective of the event was to bring out the hidden talents of the
students. The students showed their abilities through their art in the
form of quotations, paintings, sketches etc. the whole competition was
categorized into two: the juniors and the seniors. The juniors
comprised of students from Vth to VIIth and the seniors comprised of
students from VIIth to Xth.
The aim of the competition was not merely to see the creative
aspect but also to trigger and sensitize them towards the bad effects of
plastic. The winners of were ranked as 1st, 2nd and 3rd from each of two
categories.
The North Goa District Legal Servies Authority, Panaji
conducted Mediation Awareness Programme on 30th June,
2018 at 9.30 a.m. in the District & Sessions Court Building,
Panaji as per the Action plan for the year 2018-2019. There
were about 30 Students from College of Law Miramar, Bank
officers and Insurance Company Officers, Advocates and
press Reporters were present fort he said programme.
Smt. Shabnam Shaikh welcomed the gathering and
expressed the view of holding the Mediation Awareness
Programme and explained about the activities carried by the
District Legal Services Authority.
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The Children’s Home “Lar De Santa Terezinha” Unit of Discalaced Carelite
Monestary, situated at H.No.236, Pajifond, Margao-Goa was visited on the 02/07/2018
by the “Observation and Children Home Committee” of the District Legal Services
Authority, South Goa, Margao, chaired by the Cholu M. Gauns, Secretary, District Legal
Services Authority, South Goa, Margao with Ms. Sumedha Belokar, Superintendent cum
