Legal awareness camps must reach Banjara community at grassroots: Justice Sivaraman
Justice Anu Sivaraman emphasized the importance of legal awareness workshops for the Banjara community to help them understand their rights and access welfare schemes. The workshops aim to address challenges faced by the community, including obtaining identity documents and dealing with social discrimination. Various government representatives participated in the inaugural workshop held in Shivamogga, highlighting the need for improved access to legal protections.
- ▪Justice Anu Sivaraman inaugurated a legal awareness workshop for the Banjara community in Shivamogga.
- ▪The workshops aim to help community members understand their rights and access welfare schemes.
- ▪Approximately 90,000 people live across the district’s various tandas, facing numerous challenges.
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Justice Anu Sivaraman of the Karnataka High Court has stressed the need for workshops to spread awareness about welfare schemes and legal protections available to people, particularly those from disadvantaged communities.The judge was speaking after inaugurating a legal awareness workshop for the Banjara community in Shivamogga on Saturday.People in Lambani/Banjara tandas face numerous challenges, including obtaining identity documents, accessing welfare schemes, dealing with domestic violence, educational barriers, and social discrimination. Legal awareness workshops, she said, would help community members understand their rights and build the confidence to approach authorities for benefits they are entitled to.
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