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Time of India
12-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Min visits four orphan siblings
1 2 Ranchi: State agriculture minister Shilpi Neha Tirkey on Monday visited Jamtoli village in Bero block of Ranchi district to meet four siblings who became orphans last children lost their mother, Panchi Uren, to prolonged illness on May 8. Their father, Ganesh Oraon, died the next day of suspected heart the incident as "tragic and disheartening", the minister said, "The family is very poor and it was my responsibility to ensure that the children are taken care of. " "The state govt is ready to offer all necessary support to the kids. District officials have initiated the process to enrol the three elder girls in govt-run Kasturba Gandhi residential school. They will receive a monthly fiscal aid of Rs 4,000 from the Child Protection Commission. Another girl, who is aged around four years, will also be provided fiscal assistance gradually so that their extended family can take care of the child. The kids are undergoing counselling," she said after visiting the kids with a team of district administration officials so as to connect the children with welfare measures to ensure their safety and the Jharkhand high court judge and executive chairman of the Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority, Justice SN Prasad, asked the district legal services authority to send a team to the family and assure it of proper legal team led by DLSA secretary (in-charge) Abhishek Srivastva met the family and informed them about govt welfare schemes. Applications for benefits under Dada Dadi Vridhha Pension Yojna, the PM Awas Yoja, and others were received from the family.
Time of India
27-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Jhalsa to appoint mediators for commercial disputes
Ranchi: Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority (Jhalsa ) plans to appoint mediators in all districts of the state for resolving commercial disputes before the matters go to the courts. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now As part of the programme, a total of 68 mediators will be trained in three batches. The first two batches, comprising a group of 50 mediators, are currently undergoing training under the first phase which started from April 26 and will conclude on April 30. The third batch of 18 mediators would be skilled in the second phase, from May 1 to May 5. Jharkhand high court judge and executive chairman Jhalsa, justice S N Prasad on Saturday inaugurated the 40-hour training programme for mediators comprising advocates, experts in different fields and retired bureaucrats and executives at Vishvesvaraya hall in Kanke. Addressing the meeting, justice Prasad expressed hope that post training the mediators would help reduce the pending cases in the courts and also enable improved social harmony. Speaking to TOI on the issue, Jhalsa secretary Ranjana Asthana stated, "A large majority of new trainees will be responsible for resolving the commercial disputes. The pre-litigation mediation is mandatory in such quarrels. Before the training session, Jhalsa had sought names of two mediators each from all the districts." The trainers for the programme have been provided by the mediation and conciliation project committee, which has been constituted by the Supreme Court of India. It may be stated here that with Jhalsa aiming to provide mediators at sub-divisional courts as well, similar training programmes are expected in the future. Jhalsa has disposed of lakhs of pending and pre-litigation disputes though alternative dispute resolution system which includes mediation. For example, in the last National Lok Adalat held on March 8, Jhalsa had disposed of 18,70,711 disputes including 1,46,918 pending and 17,23,793 pre-litigation cases.
