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Kerala State Legal Services Authority Website:- www.kelsa.nic.in Article 39A of the Constitution of India, embodies that: The State shall secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice, on a basis of equal opportunity, and shall, in particular, provide free legal aid, by suitable legislation or schemes or in any other way, to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities. Earlier there was no statutory body for implementation of this policy of providing legal aid to the needy. This duty was mainly performed by non-governmental and voluntary organizations apart from the Kerala State Legal Aid and Advice Board, a body constituted by the Government by executive orders. The Parliament enacted the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, creating statutory bodies for the purpose of providing legal aid service to weaker sections of the society, as per which a National Legal Services Authority was constituted as an apex body under whom various State Legal Services Authorities were to function. Kerala State Legal Services Authority is the authority to provide free and competent legal service to the weaker sections of the society and to ensure that the opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities and to organise Lok Adalats to secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity. The Kerala State Legal Services Authority was constituted by the Government of Kerala as per Notification No.3115/H1/98/Law dated, 25.4.98 published as SRO No.35/98 in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No.646 dated, 25th April, 1998. The Chief Justice of High Court of Kerala is the Patron-in-Chief of the Authority
The main functions of the Authority are :-
24 Hour Legal Helpline: 9846 700 100 Contact KELSA at Member Secretary, Website:- www.kelsa.nic.in Website of National Legal Services Authority http://nalsa.gov.in/
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