The District Legal Services Authority, Mumbai, Conducted Four Sessions On Legal Awareness
The District Legal Services Authority, Mumbai, conducted four sessions on legal awareness, exclusively, for
RCB’s members of Ananda Yaan (in collaboration with Dignity Foundation).
Rtn. Satyan Israni invited former judge Advocate Hitendra Wani, and Secretary and Advocate Aileen Marques from the District Legal Services Authority, Mumbai, to conduct legal awareness sessions for our Ananda Yaan elders.
Through their sessions they explained Acts pertinent to the elderly, to over 350 senior citizens. These Acts are: the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 and Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
Advocates Wani and Marques explained how and where to use these Acts in non-legalese and all doubts were addressed. The sessions were conducted on four days from October 8th to 19th, one day for each of the four Ananda Yaan centres.
Advocate Hitendra Wani has been Civil Judge Senior Division and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate. He serves as Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Mumbai. Aileen Marques is an advocate who works with the District Legal Services Authority, Mumbai.