(Online Course) Contemporary Issues for IAS Mains 2012:Social Issues - Legal Aid
Social Issues
::Legal Aid::
Question : What are the reasons in providing legal aid to poor?
Answer :
- Illiteracy.
- Lack of financial resources and social backwardness.
- Lack of courage to exercise legal rights.
- The proclivity to suffer silently the denial of rights.
- Geographical and spatial barriers.
Question : The Philosophy of legal aid should consist of?
Answer :
- Emphasis on the concept of equality of all human beings.
- Adopting universal principles of human rights.
- Free legal aid to the poor and marginalized members of the society.
Question : What are the initiative taken to provide free legal aid?
Answer :
- Enactment of Art 39-A of the constitution.
- Establishment of National legal services Authority (NALSA).
