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Tele-Law service

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The Union Minister of Law and Justice announced that from this year, Tele-law service was being made free of cost for the citizens in the country.

About Tele-law service

  • It is a service that uses video conferencing facilities and telephone services to connect lawyers to litigants who need legal advice. 
  • This service aims to reach out to the needy, especially the marginalised and disadvantaged. 
  • The service is provided through Common Service Centres or CSCs located at gram panchayat level. 
  • It enables anyone to seek legal advice without wasting precious time and money. 
  • The service is free for those who are eligible for free legal Aid as mentioned under Section 12 of Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987. 
    • For all others a nominal fee of Rs. 30 is charged.
  • It is available in 22 official languages.
  • Legal matters in which advice can be taken through Tele-Law service :-
  • Dowry, family dispute, divorce, protection from domestic violence.
  • Sexual harassment, sexual abuse, eve teasing at the workplace.
  • Maintenance of women, children and senior citizens.
  • Rights regarding property and land.
  • Equal wages for males and females.
  • Maternity benefits and prevention of foeticide.
  • Prohibition of child marriage, protection of children from sexual assault, prevention of child labour and implementing right to education.
  • Arrest – (F.I.R)/ process of registering the First Information Report.
  • Atrocities against scheduled castes/ scheduled tribes and their rehabilitation.

Common Service Centre (CSC)

  • It  is one of the mission mode projects under the Digital India Programme run by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). 
    • There are approximately 4 lakh CSCs in India. CSCs are located in Gram Panchayats.
  • CSCs are shops/Kiosks that deliver various government services online like public utility services, social welfare schemes, healthcare, financial, education and agriculture services to citizens in rural and remote areas of the country.
 
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