IDIA Jharkhand Chapter Reaches out to Five Hundred Students in Latehar
The IDIA Jharkhand Chapter which operates out of National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi conducted mass sensitisation sessions in Latehar. Latehar is a remote district in Jharkhand, which is located about 120 kms away from their college campus in Ranchi. This district, like many others in India, faces high illiteracy rate and […]
IDIA Delhi Chapter’s Sensitisation Sessions Reached Over 8000 People
IDIA Delhi Chapter conducted Sensitisation sessions in collaboration with East District Legal Services Authority (DLSA (East)) that were streamed on YouTube with over 8,000-10,000 views of the videos collectively. DLSA (East) is a body which under the aegis of Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA) that is entrusted with the task of promoting legal awareness […]
Finding Our Way through the Woods of Wayanad
– Ashna D.* Radhika, our IDIA scholar, belongs to the Kattunayakan (literally meaning “chiefs of the forest”) tribe in the calm, serene and peaceful district of Wayanad, Kerala. She is the first member of her tribe to crack CLAT. The Kattunayakan are a Scheduled Tribe community living in South India with an estimated population of […]
IDIA Kerala Chapter Organises a Sanitary Napkin Collection Drive and a Sensitisation Session at a Girls’ Orphanage
The Legal Aid vertical and the Sensitisation vertical of the IDIA Kerala chapter visited Swanthanam, an orphanage for girls at Edathala, Kochi, on 28 January 2020, to organise an interactive sensitisation session about legal education and law as a career. Prior to the visit, the team decided to organise a collection drive in the National […]
IDIA Jharkhand: A WALK TO AWAKEN
Welcomed by the sound of beating drums and smiles on the faces of the locals, the IDIA Jharkhand chapter embarked on yet another ambitious drive, ‘A WALK TO AWAKEN’. The walk was organised to educate the village dwellers of Ekambha, Jharkhand about choosing law as a career. After covering a journey of about 10 kms […]
IDIA – Jashpur District Administration Sensitisation Programme 2019
Jashpur district lies in the north-eastern corner of the state of Chhattisgarh, bordering the states of Odisha and Jharkhand. It is a district with a majority tribal population. The IDIA Chhattisgarh Chapter comprising of students from the Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur (HNLU) in association with the Jashpur district administration, launched a collaborative project in […]
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 […]
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 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 […]