Prime objectives
Recently Member Secretary J&K LSA held a virtual meeting with Secretary Kishtwar LSA.
The prime objective behind this significant and timely initiative was to ensure that the District Legal Services Authority performs its obligation in rehabilitation of victims of fire-incident by ensuring protection of their legal rights”, maintained Amit Kumar Gupta. He said that victims of such incidents often face various legal issues because of loss of documents such as identity cards, health cards, property title deeds and other documents which lead to property disputes, non-release of timely compensation etc. “Our endeavour should be to assist the victims in retrieval or re-issuance of such documents by liaising with government departments and agencies.
He emphasized that the intervention of Legal Services Authorities should be for coordinating the integrated, strategic and sustainable development measures taken by the Government for rehabilitation purposes. The thrust of the efforts shall be for strengthening the capacity of victims of the fire incident and to coordinate with the Government departments and non-governmental organizations for providing quick aid to the victims, he added.
He briefed the Member Secretary about the steps already taken by the DLSA to provide legal aid services to the victims of the devastating fire. He assured that the initiative taken by the J&K Legal Services Authority shall be properly implemented in order to safeguard the rights of fire-affected families besides ensuring that the process of rehabilitation is equitable, just and inclusive.
