In recent years, the concept of legal literacy has emerged as an effective tool for capacity build up by an individual or community to interact effectively to secure their rights and entitlements. In the ultimate analysis, legal literacy paves the way for the self and social empowerment for the advancement of community in all respects.
Though there are many well-meaning laws, regulations and schemes designed for the benefit of both the society and individuals, many a times due to ignorance, illiteracy and interference by vested interests, their benefits hardly reach the needy individual or the community. To set right this distortion, legal literacy drive in India is receiving an increasing thrust with a focus on women and disadvantaged sections of the society. Avdhash Kaushal, Chairperson of the Dehradun based Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK) which had its genesis in the struggle for the emancipation of the disadvantaged sections of....
