DLSA
DISTRICT LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY (DLSA)
DAKSHIN DINAJPUR AT BALURGHAT
PRESENT OFFICERS
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Chairman : Shri Sudeb Mitra,
District & Sessions Judge,
Dakshin Dinajpur at Balurgat.
Secretary : Sri Soumendra Nath Roy
STAFFS
Presently D.L.S..A, Dakshin Dinajpur at Balurghat has (five) staffs and S.D.L.S.C, Balurghat has 3 (three) staffs.
OBJECTIVE
1) Providing Free & Competent Legal Services.
Who are entitled for the Free Legal Services?
Woman or Child
Member of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe
An Industrial Labour
Victim of Trafficking in Human beings or “Beggar” as referred to in Article 23 (1) of the Constitution of India.
Mentally Challenged or Physically disabled person.
Victim of Mass Disaster, Ethnic Violence, Caste atrocity, flood, drought, earth quake or industrial disaster
A person, who is in custody in a protective home or in a Juvenile home or in a Psychiatric hospital or Psychiatric Nursing Home
A male having annual income of less than Rs. 1,00,000/- (Rupees One Lac), if the case is before any Court other than the Hon’ble Supreme Court and having annual income of less than Rs. 1,25,000/- (Rupees One lac and Twenty five thousand), if the case is before the Hon’ble Supreme Court.
2) Promoting Legal Awareness among mass.
3) Organizing Lok Adalats on 3rd Sunday of every month.
4) Providing free legal aids to the people entitled to, through Village Legal Care & Support Centres (previously known as Village Legal Aid Clinic), operating in different Gram Panchayats of the District.
ENTITLEMENT
Who are entitled for the Free Legal Services?
Woman or Child.
Member of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe.
An Industrial Labour.
Victim of Trafficking in Human beings or “Beggar” as referred to in Article 23 (1) of the Constitution of India.
Mentally Challenged or Physically disabled person.
Victim of Mass Disaster, Ethnic Violence, Caste atrocity, flood, drought, earth quake or industrial disaster.
A person, who is in custody in a protective home or in a Juvenile home or in a Psychiatric hospital or Psychiatric Nursing Home.
A male having annual income of less than Rs. 1,00,000/- (Rupees One Lac), if the case is before any Court other than the Hon’ble Supreme Court and having annual income of less than Rs. 1,25,000/- (Rupees One lac and Twenty five thousand), if the case is before the Hon’ble Supreme Court.
STATISTICS
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Disposal of Cases through National Lok Adalat, held on 23.11.2013 :
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No. of Pre-Litigation Cases Referred:
No. of Post-Litigation Cases Referred:
Total No. of Cases Referred:
No. of Pre-Litigation Cases Settled:
No. of Post-Litigation Cases Settled:
Total No. of Cases Settled:
Award Amount (Rs.):
Spot Collection (Rs.):
Fine Realised:
625
108
733
170
63
233
1,78,08,879/-
4,62,030/-
3,275/-
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No. of Free Legal Aid Beneficiaries for the year 2013: 81 (Eighty one).
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No. of Free Legal Aid Beneficiaries for the year 2014 (up to 31st March): 67 (Sixty seven).
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Last Legal Awareness Camp organized: Recently a Legal Awareness Camp was arranged on 18.03.2014 at Hili Block of Balurghat Sub-Division, District Dakshin Dinajpur, for the Unorganized Sector Workers.
VILLAGE LEGAL CARE & SUPPORT CENTRES
DLSA, Dakshin Dinajpur at Balurghat has opened the
following Village Legal Care & Support Centres (previously known as Village Legal Aid Clinic) manned by Para Legal Volunteers (PLVs), in different Gram Panchayats of the District to provide Legal Aids :
Block wise list of Gram Panchyats:
BALURGHAT BLOCK
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SL. NO.
NAME OF THE GRAM PANCHAYAT
1.
Boaldar
2.
Bolla
3.
Chingishpur
4.
Nazirpur
5.
Bhatpara
6.
Chakbhrigu
7.
Danga
8.
Amritakhanda
9.
Patiram
BANSHIHARI BLOCK
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SL. NO.
NAME OF THE GRAM PANCHAYAT
1.
Brajaballabhpur
2.
Ellahabad
3.
Shibpur
4.
Mahabari
GANGARAMPUR BLOCK
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SL. NO.
NAME OF THE GRAM PANCHAYAT
1.
Sukdevpur
2.
Uday
3.
Belbari-I
4.
Gangarampur
HARIRAMPUR BLOCK
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SL. NO.
NAME OF THE GRAM PANCHAYAT
1.
Bagichapur
2.
Saiyadpur (manned by 1 Lawyer & 2 PLVs)
HILI BLOCK
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SL. NO.
NAME OF THE GRAM PANCHAYAT
1.
Dhalpara
2.
Jamalpur
3.
Panjul
4.
Binshira
5.
Hili
KUMARGANJ BLOCK
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SL. NO.
NAME OF THE GRAM PANCHAYAT
1.
Batun
2.
Deor
3.
Jakirpur
4.
Bhour
5.
Mohana
6.
Ramkrishnapur
7.
Safanagar
KUSHMANDI BLOCK
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SL. NO.
NAME OF THE GRAM PANCHAYAT
1.
Beroil
2.
Kalikamore
3.
Karanji
4.
Kushmandi
TAPAN BLOCK
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SL. NO.
NAME OF THE GRAM PANCHAYAT
1.
Rampara Chenchra (manned by 1 Lawyer & 2 PLVs)
2.
Autina
3.
Dwipkhanda
4.
Malancha
5.
Ramchandrapur
6.
Harsura
Some Useful Links:--
National Legal Services Authority
State Legal Services Authority
Photo Gallery of DLSA
CONTACT US
Office of the District Legal Services Authority
District Judge’s Court Complex
Dakshin Dinajpur at Balurghat
Phone No. 03522- 251096 / 259528
E-mail: ddinajpur.dlsa@gmail.com