Legal Internship Opportunity at MP State Legal Services Authority: Apply Now!

About MP State Legal Services Authority

MPSLSA or MP State Legal Services Authority is constituted under the Legal Services Authority Act, 1987 for  providing free competent legal services to the weaker sections of the society to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities and to organise Lok Adalats an alternate dispute resolution mechanism to secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity

About the Opportunity

The Programme would be a 3 weeks programme

The interns would be required to spend internship with the M.P. State Legal Services Authority Jabalpur or District Legal Services Authority of their choice, be it their home district or district in which their law college
falls or any other district of their choice;

Responsibilities

While interning, the interns would be required to interact and
i) Visit a Central Jail or Sub Jail for one day in the District ;
ii) Visit an Observation Home/Juvenile Justice Board for one day;
iii) Visit Child Welfare Committee and Children’s Home for one day;
iv) Visit a home for senior citizens for one day;
v) Visit a Mental health Establishment/drug de-addiction centre for one day;
vi) Visit the District Courts including Magisterial, Sessions and Civil Courts for one day;
vii) Attend a legal literacy/legal awareness programme in the district for one or two days;
viii) Watch the mediation proceedings at Mediation/ADR centre and LokAdalat/Permanent LokAdalat for one day;
ix) Visit a legal literacy club in a school/legal services clinic in a college and/or in community, etc. for one day.
Note:- If required, out of the above said visits, two or more may be clubbed and conducted on single day;
x) Spend the remaining days in the office of the M.P. State Legal Services Authority Jabalpur or District Legal Services Authority for observing the working of Front office and other activities of SLSA/DLSA.

The interns would be required to make their own boarding and lodging arrangements as well as for local travel both within the district to which they are attached for the internship.

How to Apply:

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