Community Services
Symbiosis Law School has a Legal Care and Literacy Centre for providing legal aid to the community. The following are some of the highlights of the Community Services of SLS, Pune:
- Community Lawyering and Legal Aid – in Collaboration with CLRN, CUNY School of Law, USA
- Legal Aid Centre has been set up in Pirangut Village to provide legal aid to the villagers
- Created Rs. 20 Lacs Corpus Fund with kind assistance from Symbiosis Foundation and Adv. Ram Jethmalani for Community Legal Service
- Lecture Series in Pirangut by experts on alternate Saturdays.
- Socio-Legal Survey in progress
- Service Learning as part of curricular activities to groom the students.
- Outreach program: inter-institute expertise sharing
- Proposal to train Police sent, approval awaited from Government of India
- Legal Aid Camps and Legal literacy activities
- Created Legal Resource Network
- Collaboration with SOFOSH (Society of Friends of the Sassoon Hospitals) to provide legal aid
- Make a Difference’ – Human Rights Cell
- Collaboration with other NGOs like Alert, Saheli, PCGT.
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