Legal Aid, Awareness and Action Group (LAAAG)
Youth For Good Governance||YFGG
Our Mentor
"BE YOU, EVER SO HIGH, THE LAW IS ABOVE YOU"
Legal aid and good governance to be the citizens' right in a democracy.”
~Hon'ble Shri N. Santosh Hegde
Retired Supreme Court Judge; Former Solicitor General of India; Lokayukta (ombudsman) for Karnataka State of India from 2006-2011
MISSION
Legal Empowerment Leaving No one behind
VISION
To Bridge the gap between marginalised sections of the society and the Justice system in the country through empowerment and assistance
Need For Legal Aid,Awareness and Action Group
Enable Enforcement of Economic,Socialand Cultural Right
Upgrading Participation in the litigation Process
Protection of public Interest
Make judicial System accessible to all people
Creation of Legal Awareness
Attaches Value to legal process
Conflate the illusory substance of Legal rights
Legal Aid Status In INDIA
Qualified Population
80% i.e Approx 108 cr
Actual Beneficiary
1.5 Cr i.e. 1.38% of Qualified Population
Table :YFGG , Source: NALSA Created with Datawrapper
Project Goals
To promote free Legal Aid and create Awareness amongest the Weaker/Marginal sections in the society
To ensure equality and justice amongest all the sections in the society
To provide free legal aid assistance to people in need
To understand the social issues in the society and create a solution oriented society
To motivate and increase the youth's participation and and create an active citizenry
Arrangement of services to provide equality of opportunity for the poor
Legal Literacy and Awareness Training Modules preferential to cohort specific
Commendation of Legal Aid Awareness and Literacy in relation to NALSA Schemes
Legal enforcement, legal empowerment via legal aid
Verticals In Organisation
Advisory Board
Project Advisors
Lawyer Panel
Core Team
Interns
Volunteers
Seva
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Nyaya
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Kshama
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Sammatam
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Guiding Principles And Values
What Makes LAANG Special
One of our Legal Aid and Action group’s most unique features is our module-based approach while working with each cohort. Through it, we will segmentalise and put prominence in all the areas that require attention.
We also aim to have specific project heads for each cohort we work with. We hope to receive their expertise and guidance while working on the said projects.
We also intend to collaborate with organisations who are already working with our target cohort.
We will also focus on online awareness along with on-ground initiatives to make the change more holistic.
After providing with necessary legal aid, we also aim to follow up with the cohort members to keep track of the progress made and provide further guidance if required.
We also aim to publish a comprehensive magazine on the different as well as Central Government Schemes, State Government Schemes, Social Welfare Programmes, and Skill Development Programmes and Initiatives to make the general public aware of them.
Services that connect, collaborate and engage with actual society
Specialized referral flow through with consistent and flexible stages of administrative support.
Off sight and On sight broad range legal aid and literacy.
Constant Monitoring and evaluation of selected cohorts
Follow diversified methodologies to enable an in-depth analysis of cohorts
Accumulation and documentation of the research for perusal
Strategic Policy Planning and speculative inception of cohort support services.
Establish trend in legal aid, awareness and literacy data collection and aboriginal enquiries.
Understanding and accurating demographics and infrastructure for the vulnerables to provide legal aid and assistance.
Research and Analysis Wing
Cohort Specific
Working LAANG
Module Development and Data Collation Wing
Awareness Creation Wing
Online Awareness Team
Follow up and Assistance Wing
Legal Aid Wing
On Ground Awareness Team
Research and Analysis Wing Cohort Specific
Week 1 of every month
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Selection of Cohorts (In a given list of geographical area)
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Research on the needs of the Cohort
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Make calls and visits to understand their requirements and provide a status report
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Based on the Status report arrive at a list of suggestion for Legal Aid and program assistance requirements will be highlighted by the wing (Group at large)
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In the process of ascertaining issues of the group as a whole, if the researcher comes across individual problems that required to be addressed by LAAAG, this wing takes note of the same.
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All this information will be complied in the form of RAW Report by the wing.
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Team Strength : 10
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Documents Output : Status Report and RAW Report
Module Development and Data Collation Wing
Week 2
Based on the Status Report and the RAW Report, this wing identifies the key problems and comes up with a module and collects primary and secondary data (based on the projected means to resolve the problems of the cohort and specific individual concerns. This wing is also involved in conducting surveys. The Module will contain the following
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Brief description of the Cohort, in areas selected
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The main issues raised and problems put forth by the cohort
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Status of recognition of problem by governing agencies of the State
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Existing and available remedy and solutions in the form of schemes and programmes offered by the government
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In detail analysis of existing schemes
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If no existing remedy, plausible remedies and solutions suggested along with a viability model
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Time frame for the proposed remedy and prospective partners for collaboration (government agencies and other bodies)
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Proposal
Awareness Creation Wing
Week 3
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Based on the Status Report, RAW Report, Module and the Proposal this wing aims to create awareness both through online,telephonic and electronic means and offline and physical meets.
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Both team combined at the end of week 3 submit at Outreach Report.
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Team Strength : 10
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Output : Online Content and Outreach report
Online Awareness Team
The online team of this wing aims to create awareness through online means, by contacting the cohort, informing them about the schemes, along with creating consumable content to make the general public to aware about the concerns faces and plausible solutions. This will help LAAAG in addressing the problem at the core and enable better outreach.
On Ground Awareness Team
The on ground team, seeks to conduct awareness by physically visiting the places where the cohorts are accessible and create awareness through seminars, conferences, drives, Street plays and other suitable modes so as to ensure that the cohort are enlightened about the problem and the solutions arrived through thorough research.
Legal Aid Wing
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The Legal Aid team merges with the On ground team, and starts off individually when the On ground teams submits the outreach report.
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The aim of the Legal Aid team is to individually assist the members of the selected cohort with their legal problems, where common with the others or individualistic. Based on the documents prepared by the above mentioned wings the recommend remedies to the individuals and enquire with the if they require any assistance in light of the same.
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This wing would be dedicated to providing complete guidance to the cohorts
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Team Strength : 10
Follow up and Assistance Wing
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This wing concerns itself with the follow up process spanned out over a period of 6 months. The contacted individuals/ cohorts are contacted every month either to seek information or provide an assistance or provide a status of the progress made in the help and assistance guaranteed. For example, if the assistance guaranteed is to enroll the individual in a particular scheme, then every month the individuals and cohort is contacted by this wing to provide them information on the progress or to seek additional information if required.
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Team Strength : 10
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Output : Individual Status Reports, Timeline and Progress Report (Monthly) and Cohort Closure Report
Monthly Awareness Magazine (MAM)
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Laws, Statutes and enactments
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Central Government Schemes
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State Government Schemes
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Social Welfare Programmes
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Skill Development Programmes and Initiatives
MAM will contain comprehensive explanations of various schemes, along with the object, intended beneficiaries, and other qualifications. This will be coupled with detailed explanation on the procedure to apply and avail benefit which would be available in different languages, based on the requirements of the beneficiaries. The follow-up team would have individuals dedicated to assist all the beneficiaries until they are enrolled for a particular scheme so as to avail the necessary benefit.
Stories Inspiring Revolution (SIR)
A selected story of an individual/group inspiring action and change in the society would be published by this Segment .
LAAAG Assistance Mails and Phone Calls (LAMP)
In order to assist those who have difficulties in accessing legal aid, we aim to provide cursory guidance and direction with respect to applicable laws, statutes and enactments along with trying our best to connect them to practitioners who can take up their cause, keeping in mind the state machinery providing for legal assistance, including NALSA and State specific legal services authorities. This is our attempt to help spread awareness about the efforts of the state to make justice accessible to all.
Future Work and Cohorts
Migrant Workers and their children
Waste
Pickers/ Pourakarmikas
Senior Citizens
Skill Development
Women Councillors
Hawkers and street vendors
Beggars and Homeless
Victims of Crime
Slum Children
Persons with Disabilities
Victims of Disasters
Daily wage workers/ Industrial workmen
Transgenders
Victims of Trafficking
Child Labourers
Future Workshops and seminars
Legal Aid and Literacy Mission
FIR and Online FIR
DLSA, KSLSA and NALSA
RTIs
PILs
Local level leader Training on Technology
Access to Legal Aid and Clinic
NALSA Schemes and solicitation
Consumer Rights
Vulnerable Women
Consultation Session
Hon'ble Mr. Justice N. Santosh Hegde || Chief Guest
Gallery
Our Team
Harsh Dev Chaudhary
Mehuli Sarkar
Gagana M
