IDIA Uttar Pradesh Chapter Conducted a Legal Awareness Session with Sadbhavna Trust
The Legal Services Vertical of IDIA – UP Chapter conducted a legal awareness session in collaboration with the Sadbhavna Trust, Lucknow. The session included spreading awareness on topics like the laws on domestic violence, process of filing an FIR, various welfare government schemes, and legal aid. About the Legal Services Vertical of IDIA – UP […]
A transformative expedition and a visit to meet Mr. Rahul Gandhi – Radhika, Mridula and other stories
– Anita Elizebeth Babu* On 16 August 2021, we set out on a brief visit to Wayanad as representatives of IDIA for a lunch hosted Mr. Rahul Gandhi, Member of Parliament from Wayanad, Kerala for the tribal students from the district who cleared CLAT with the assistance of IDIA. Little did we imagine the depth […]
IDIA Signs a MOU with CAN Foundation for Supporting IDIA Scholars under Project Dhanajay
IDIA Charitable Trust and Confederation of Alumni for National Law Universities (CAN Foundation or CAN) have tied-up through a Memorandum of Understanding (‘MoU’), in regard to one of CAN’s flagship projects, ‘Dhananjay’. The objective of the tie-up is to assist the financially underprivileged legal aspirants recommended by IDIA in pursuing a career in litigation. The […]
Going Forward, One Sensitisation at a Time
Today, as I write this post, I tear up a little. There’s not a day that has gone by when I’ve not thought about Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer since the evening of 8th August 2019. Oddly enough, I never had the opportunity of meeting him. Yet, there’s a cosmic connection that I have felt towards […]
Top law firms in Kolkata and other cities come on board as IDIA’s internship partners!
In a big boost to IDIA’s advocacy for inclusivity and diversity in the legal profession, top law firms in Kolkata have joined as IDIA’s internship partners. We are very delighted to announce that four law firms in Kolkata – Khaitan & Co., Fox & Mandal, Sinha & Co. and Avijit Deb and Partners, along with Aquilaw […]
Sensitisation at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bagalur
IDIA’s student volunteers Aishwarya Singh, Devansh Kaushik, Mugdha Mohapatra and Prakhar Pipraiya, from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru (NLSIU) along with directors-in-charge of the IDIA Karnataka Chapter Bhavya Mahajan and Eshwar Ramachandran, conducted a sensitisation cum interactive session for students from the 9th and 10th grades at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bagalur […]
IDIA Scholar Rinju selected as a Judicial Clerk to Justice Shivakant Prasad of the Calcutta High Court
We are extremely proud of our scholar Rinju Kumari who has been selected as a judicial clerk to Justice Shivakant Prasad of the Calcutta High Court after a rigorous selection process involving a written exam and an interview. This is an important milestone for IDIA Charitable Trust (IDIA) that seeks to make the legal profession […]
IDIA Odisha Chapter conducts Sensitisation sessions for over 300 students in Bolangir in 3 days
3 days. 3 volunteers. Over 380 students sensitized about law. You read that right! Over a span of three days, from 3rd – 5th April, 2019, a team from IDIA Odisha Chapter consisting of first year volunteers Tuku Padhan and Shreyas Alevoor (the author of this post), led by Team Leader (Legal Aid) Shivendra Pandey, conducted a […]
A promise to return: Sensitisation session by IDIA Punjab chapter
IDIA seeks to achieve a simple goal – spreading awareness about and access to the legal profession, among the underprivileged communities of India. Over the course of the past decade, the field of law has received tremendous recognition and is increasingly becoming the preferred choice of career for numerous students each year. Despite the expansion […]
IDIA Pune Chapter conducts an eye-opening sensitisation at an ashram near Pune
The following is an account by Atharv Joshi, who is a 3rd Year student at ILS Law college, Pune. He has been a part of the Pune Chapter of IDIA for a year. Here he relates his experience of conducting a sensitisation session in an ashram near Pune, Maharashtra. I joined IDIA’s newly formed […]