A SOCIO LEGAL STUDY CONDUCTED IN SEWAGRAM AREA WITH REFERENCE TO AWARENESS OF LOKADALAT

Synopsis for: Research work submitted to Rashtrasant Tukdoji

Maharaj Nagpur University in the partial fulfillment of the requirement of the award of The degree of
Master of law

Submitted by: Ms. VRUSHALI D.TARALE

L.L.M III rd sem.

(group C)
Under Guidance of Mr. Adarsh M. Dhabarde

Lecturer,
YESHWANT MAHAVIDYALAYA, WARDHA. 2010-2011

TITLE OF THE STUDY

A Socio-legal study conducted in Sewagram Area with reference to awareness of Lok-Adalat in 2010

INTRODUCTION :
Lok-Adalat , the vernacular meaning of which court established for the people but as we know nothing established itself so quickly without any background or support ,the Lok-Adalat is not also exception to this rule ,therefore as per many articles ,books :Lok-Adalat: an Alternative Dispute resolution mechanism (Sarfaraz Ahmad Khan, kathyayani v. and Vidhi Bhatt) and likewise institute of LokAdalat was functioning as voluntary & conciliatory agency without any statutory backing for more than 10 yrs. At the very initial stage in 1980s period ,the Government appointed a committee for the object of providing free legal aid by the name Committee for Implementation Of Legal Aid Scheme (CILAS) under the chairmanship of justice Bhagwati, on 26th September 1980-it is so done with the realization that it must serve the poor and helpless disputants who fail to solve the problem ,and large number of masses who dont have access to justice .And thus CILAS started to organize Lok-Adalat as a legal aid strategy ,the institution of Lok-Adalat proved to be very popular in providing speedy justice but on the review of working of (CILAS) certain deficiencies were noticed ..and due to the deficiencies the solution was provided in the form of enactments 1) Passing the Legal Service Authority Act 1987 which took 7 years for its enforcement 2) Establishing the state level Legal Service Authority : which was enforced through different notifications in different states in the said 1995 to 1998 period.

PROBLEM OF STUDY

1) Most of the people from the sewagram area illiterate, so for this reason they are unaware about such a type of Alternative Dispute Resolution. 2) Most of the Advocates due to their own monetary sake dont propagate about Lok-Adalat & try to blind-fold the people having litigation. 3) Most of the people residing at rural area are trapped by the incomplete and unsupported knowledge about Lok-Adalat. 4) Non supportive role and the apprehension on Authorities for seeking help from. 5) There are provisions about Lok-Adalat in many enactments as well as it has its own statutes beyond that there are no strict provisions of its implementation 6) The burden of court is increasing due to the unaware litigants. 7) The Lok-Adalat is a discretionary solution but not a mandatory one.

RATIONALE OF THE STUDY :

RATIONALE OF THE STUDY OF THIS TOPIC ARE : 1)To know why even in the presence of such Alternative Dispute Resolution method like Lok-Adalat ,people are not seeking help of it . 2) The study of such a grievous topic necessary to points out that being called the modern era, the people are not easily adjustable and as per the saying fear of unknown is always great 3) The study is to be done for pursuing various ways for spreading awareness amongst at list selects UNIVERSE OF MY REASEARCH.

OBJECTIVES

1) Developed To know the nature, purpose and objective of legal rules and enactments, which governs particular situation, in Alternative Dispute resolution through Lok-Adalat? 2) To investigate whether such ADR method like Lok-Adalat is actually working or not . 3) To identify and study the weaknesses of an existing law & defects in particular area of law. 4) To find out the reasons for the establishment of such statute Legal Service Authorities Act 1987,and State Level Legal Service Authorities under different notifications. 5) To know whether the amendments made in the existing law is honored or not. 6) To study the factors which cause problem and examine questions what? And which best way law can be effectively used as a mechanism of control and change. 7) To refer the judicial pronouncement related with Lok-Adalat 8) To give suggestions &for the effectiveness of the system.

HYPOTHESIS

After making observations of this topic, the researcher made the solution that, Awareness & courage to approach to the proper authorities for enlisted matters to be solved by Lok-Adalat method must be. At the same time, the Government as well as the concerned Authorities must take notice of such people and prove responsive towards the queries presented by them The Advocates must leave their greedy nature and behave .helpful to the poor & needy people for bringing quick justice for them through Lok-Adalat.

RESEARCH DESIGN Type of socio-legal research in the present study i.e. Empirical. As for the type of the research in this study concerned it clearly appeared from the title A Socio-legal study conducted in Sewagram Area with reference to awareness of Lok-Adalat in 2010 conducted in sewagram itself suggest that it is an Empirical or Non-Doctrinal study. Because the special enactments have provided the special type of litigation in which the poor and needy people who can get justice speedily on cheap cost but the awareness is not on such an extent that such a chance could be so utilized.. Therefore this study has been conducted to find out the problem of reasons for unawareness and find solution thereof through interview and observation. There is another scope of this study is to find out the fact that there is necessity to implementation of the enactments mandatorily which would deals with the problem.

NATURE OF THE STUDY The nature of the study is exploratory. The researcher throughout the study has explored the various concepts as well as the problem related unawareness amongst sewagram rural area people. The researcher has analyzed the problem as well as various legislation relating to the socio-legal study.

UNIVERSE OF THE STUDY This socio-legal research study relates to the problem of the unawareness amongst sewagram rural area people. The universe of the study therefore, comprised of the categories of the population living in the sewagram area.

SAMPLE OF THE STUDY

1) ADVOCATES 2) COURT PREMISE 3) LITIGANTS 4) RESIDENTS OF SEWAGRAM

SAMPLING DESIGN As a sampling technique, the researcher selected simple random sampling. The reason behind such selection is that it is not possible for a researcher to visit each and every people and inhabitants resident to interview him. Again there is a time limitation for carrying research work therefore researcher selected to use Random sampling technique. Under this area and interviewed visited the sewagram area through it is not possible, Random technique to know where the sample is representative. Researcher tried her best to collect representative data through her questions.

TOOLS AND METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION The under mentioned method are adopted for the collection of the data in this study Method a) Questionnaire Method b) Interview Method Tools Questionnaire Interview Schedu

c) By adopting these methods the researcher has collected the complete information about the producer and the problem

in relation to the awareness extent In Sewagram rural area,. .

SOURCE OF DATA Both the sources of the data i.e. primary and secondary in this study by researcher. In the present study primary or field source or internal source of data is the original information collected for the 1st time. It is also called the internal source of the data as the data collected directly from the obtained from the living persons directly related with the problem by 1) Questionnaire 2) Interview. So far as the secondary source is concerned the information obtained from outside i.e. published sources in the present study researcher has referred various books, study material case laws, research report etc. Hence both primary and secondary sources are used in this study.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1) Books ; LOKADALAT- Author SARFARAZ AHMAD KHAN 2) LOKADALAT: BY PRATIBHA BHARGAV 3) CONSTITUTION OF INDIA ; J.N PANDEY ARTICLES: BY TIMES OF INDIA , ARTICLE ; NY ANURAG AGRWAL WEBSITES : www.parliamentof india.com, www.lawjournal.blogspot .com, www.legalserviceindia.com

RESEARCH CANDIDATE; Ms VRUSHALI D .TARALE L.L.M III rd sem

GUIDE; Mr. Adarsh M. Dhabarde

DATE: 29-9-2010