UDHAMPUR, JUNE 14: Sankalp Hub for Empowerment of Women,Udhampur organised an awareness drive on “legal aid and counsel” in collaboration with DLSA Udhampur at SBI RSETI, Shiv Nagar Udhampur.
The main objective of the drive was to bridge the gap and make legal services accessible to all segments of our society.
The programme was organised under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Udhampur Saloni Rai and overall guidance of District Social Welfare Officer Kanika Gupta.
During the programme, Akhil Dubey (Advocate DLSA) talked about free legal services provided by DLSA. He also provide information regarding legal rights and articles related to it like IPC Section 354 , 354(A), 354(B), 354(C) and 354 (D), Fundamental rights of women, POSH Act, POSCO Act etc .
Later, Jyoti Pathania (District Mission Coordinator) Sankalp HEW Udhampur encouraged the participants to be self-dependent, both socially and economically which will help in effective elimination of Gender inequality or Gender based violence in a society. She further stated that it is a must for a woman to know her rights in a society.
Meanwhile, gender specialist ( Pooja Jamwal) aware the participants about various women centric schemes running in District Udhampur i.e SMAS, Pension Schemes, SSY,Tejaswini, other loan schemes, One Stop Centre Sakhi, Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao etc.
Director SBI RSETI, senior faculty member SBI RSETI, PLV ( DLSA) and around 60 participants were present in the program.
