Training of 200 Paralegal Volunteers (PLVs) of the State Legal Services Authorities (LSA) of the State of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh

The Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India is implementing a Project on “Access to Justice for Marginalized People” with UNDP support in the States of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The Project focuses on the one hand on improving institutional capacities of key justice service providers to enable them to effectively serve the poor and disadvantaged and on the other hand, directly empowering the poor and disadvantaged men and women to seek and demand justice services.

In the previous phase (2009-12) the Project reached out to approximately 2 million people in the 7 Project States. 7000 paralegal workers were created and 300 lawyers were trained and sensitised. Many knowledge products were created including booklets containing simplified legal information, short films, community radio programmes, training modules etc.

The second phase of the Project has started from 2013 for a period of 5 years. The geographical coverage under this phase of the Project will be limited to eight (8) States of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

The DoJ and UNDP are inviting proposals from competent agencies for training of 200 LSA Paralegal Volunteers (PLVs) each from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.