{"id":257467,"date":"2023-08-26T20:03:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=257467"},"modified":"2023-08-28T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T04:35:33","slug":"tele-law-2-0-unveiled-by-law-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tele-law-2-0-unveiled-by-law-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tele-Law 2.0 unveiled by Law Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Tele-Law 2.0 unveiled by Law Minister<\/b><b>\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB on 25th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Law Minister has launched the Tele-Law 2.0 initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Tele Law Initiative?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tele-law-reaching-the-unreached\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Tele-Law<\/b><b> 2.0 initiative?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tele-Law 2.0 entails the fusion of Tele-Law Services with Nyaya Bandhu pro bono legal services to improve citizen access to legal aid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This merger is seen as a significant step in making legal services more accessible to people throughout India, contributing to the democratization of legal assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Nyaya<\/b><b> Bandhu Initiative?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nyaya Bandhu\u2019s (Pro Bono Legal Services) initiative was launched by the Minister for Law &amp; Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To establish a framework for dispensation of pro bono legal services across the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Under Nyaya Bandhu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, practicing advocates, interested to volunteer their time and services, are connected, via mobile technology, with eligible marginalized beneficiaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Who qualifies to be a beneficiary for Legal help under <\/b><b>Nyaya<\/b><b> Bandhu Initiative?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beneficiaries or Applicants, in order to avail the benefits under this programme must belong to one of the categories mentioned under Section 12 of The Legal Services Authority Act of 1987. These include:<\/span><b> 1) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of a Scheduled Caste <\/span><b>2) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member of a Scheduled Tribe <\/span><b>3)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Victim of trafficking in human beings or begar as referred in article 23 of the Constitution <\/span><b>4) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woman or a Child <\/span><b>5) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Person with disability<\/span><b> 6) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Person in custody <\/span><b>7) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An industrial workman <\/span><b>8) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victim of a mass disaster, ethnic violence, caste atrocity, flood, drought, earthquake or industrial disaster; <\/span><b>9) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Person with annual income less than as specified under law and Others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cTele-Law 2.0 unveiled by Law Minister\u201d\u00a0 published in PIB on 25th August 2023. What is the News? The Union Law Minister has launched the Tele-Law 2.0 initiative. What is the Tele Law Initiative? Click Here to read What is the Tele-Law 2.0 initiative? Tele-Law 2.0 entails the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tele-law-2-0-unveiled-by-law-minister\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tele-Law 2.0 unveiled by Law Minister<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,956,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-257467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}