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IITA develops website to create legal awareness
FOR THE first time in the country, a website has been developed by the Indian Institute of Information Technology in collaboration with the Delhi district court website committee to create legal awareness in the country.
FOR THE first time in the country, a website has been developed by the Indian Institute of Information Technology in collaboration with the Delhi district court website committee to create legal awareness in the country.
This site will be inaugurated by IIITA director MD Tiwari during the three-day national seminar on ‘Empowering Rural India through ICT’ to be held at IIITA extension campus at Amethi on April 15. Dr Tiwari said the website provided basic legal awareness. One could access different topics like set-up of the court, revenue and police telephone directory of Sultanpur district by merely clicking the mouse. Significantly, those who can not afford lawyers, would be given legal aid through the website, he said.
People could also lodge their complaints that will be forwarded to the concerned officials through proper channel and the answers would be posted on the website under the column ‘Responses’. The site was being launched in Hindi and five other languages.
Soon it would be available in all the languages in the country. It would be accessible to every citizen of the country whether in a remote village or in a town, said Dr Tiwari
He further said law did not discriminate on the basis of place of abode, religion, caste or creed. Unfortunately, awareness regarding our certain legal rights as enshrined in the Constitution was very low among rural people, he added.
He further said that the focus would be on legal rights of children like right to education which is provided free of cost up to primary level. Information on girls’ marriage age, share in parental property, dowry harassment, sex determination test etc would be made available to women.
Besides, legal rights of landless poor people and SC/STs and OBCs would be made available on the Net. Free legal aid would be provided to villagers at the district level, he added.
The seminar will be inaugurated by Dr Sneh Bhargava, formerly of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Besides, Prof Kartar Singh and Prof SK Mishra of Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute, Lucknow, Dr VP Singh, Dr GV Nagraj, and Dr Manish Vaish will speak on health care through IT. Vice-chancellor Dr RP Bajpai of Guru Jambheshwar University Hisar, Prof Surabhi Banerjee vice-chancellor Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, Prof Kamalakar Singh and others will take part in the education session.
At the rural connectivity session, Dr AK Sangal, ISRO, AN Rai of BSNL, Venkat Patnaik of ILFS, Shashank Garg of Encore Technologies and Prof NC Sharma would be the main speakers.
Dr Nageshwar Rao ISRO and Dr Brahamanand Hedge, head product and credit, ICICI Bank will deliver talks on Agri business and Micro financing.
An eminent judge from Allahabad High Court is likely to preside over the legal awareness session. Talwant Singh and Chandrashekar ADJ Delhi court will be other main speakers of the session.
A cultural programme will be presented by the IIITA students and prominent artistes.
