Project to make village litigation-free

Kochi, Aug 11 (UNI) In a bid to make Kumbalanghi village, the Tourism village of the Kerala Government, litigation-free, the National University of Advanced Studies would launch a Clinical Legal Aid Programme to create legal awareness among the people and provide legal-aid to the deserving people in the village.

Talking to newspersons here yesterday, Vice-Chancellor S G Bhatt said, after preliminary survey, it was decided to launch the project in the village on August 15.

Dr Bhatt said ''The object of the three-fold project was to spread legal awareness, provide legal-aid to the residents of the village and eventually make it litigation-free.'' He said the project would be launched in association with local panchayat. The panchayat would be alerted of the societal problems, he added.

John Pazheri, President of the Kumbalanghi Panchayat, also attended the press conference.

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