The Government is trying to make every citizen get justice and efforts are on to ensure that road to justice is available at the doorstep. Union Minister for Law and Justice and IT Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad said this here today while launching mobile application and dashboard and Nyaya Bandhu mobile application. He said a policy of this Government is to ensure empowerment of common man by popularizing technology to a level that it becomes an instrument of change.
Encouraging social service among law fraternity, the collegium should consider introducing a provision for getting preference in appointment as a judge if the advocate has substantive credit of providing pro-bono service.
Benefit from towards fulfilling the Constitutional commitment under Article 39A for providing Access to Justice to all and aiming to realize the government mandate of Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas and Sabka Nyaya, Department of Justice (DoJ) has successfully endeavored to spearhead its two key programmes namely Tele –Law: Mainstreaming Legal Aid through Common Service Centers and Nyaya Bandhu (Pro Bono Legal Services), through leveraging with different technology based channels to boost legal advice and aid in the country.
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