District Legal Services Authority, Cuttack

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Chairperson:- Shri Sitikantha Samal, Hon’ble District and Sessions Judge, Cuttack
Secretary:- Shri Jagdish Chandra Jena, OJS

The DLSA Cuttack is functioning at district and Session Judge Court Cuttack premises. The Hon’ble District and Session Judge, Cuttack is the Chairperson of this Authority and a judicial Officer in the Cadre of senior civil Judge is the Secretary of this station. Seven number of Taluk Legal Services Committees namely Athagarh, Banki, Baramba, Narsinghpur, Niali, Salipur & Tigiria are functioning under this Authority. There is a panel of 51 Nos of Panel Lawyer are empanelled under DLSA Cuttack including TLSCs. They are providing quality based Legal Services to the marginalised section of the society. There is also a Panel of 127 Nos of Para Legal Volunteers under DLSA Cuttack including TLSCs. They are very active as well as motivated by humanitarian work. They provide help to the needy and poor people in getting Medical treatment, issuance of Ration Card ,Labour Card ,etc..

• Panel Lawyers List of DLSA,Cuttack
• Para Legal Volunteers for Cuttack District
• Legal Aid Defense Counsels Details

• A member of a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe
• A victim of trafficking in human being or beggar as referred to in article 23 of the Constitution
• A Woman or Child
• A mentally ill or otherwise disabled person
• A person under circumstances of undeserved want such as being a victim of a mass disaster, ethnic violence, caste atrocity, flood, drought, earthquake/or industrial disaster
• An industrial workman
• In custody, including cusody in aprotective home within the meaning of clause (g) of secton 2 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 or in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home with in the meaning of clause(g) of section 2 of the Mental Health Act, 1987
• A person whose yearly income is less than Rs . 25,000/- if the case is before a court other than Supreme Court and less than Rs 50,000/-. if the case is before the Supreme Court

• Supreme Court Legal Services Committe
• National Legal Services Authority
• Odisha State Legal Services Authority
• Orissa High Court Legal Services Committee
• Permanent Lok Adalat