The Committee regularly organises legal aid camps in different areas of Jodhpur to cater to wide range of legal matters. Recently, a Legal Aid Camp was organized in the Basni colony, inhabited by migrants majorly from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The campaign started with the outreach and groundwork wherein loudspeakers were used to dissipate information. This was followed by a door-to-door survey where the members of the Committee distributed pamphlets and briefed people about the legal aid camp that was to be organized. Contact information of the Committee’s legal aid panel as well as the contact of the Aajeevika Bureau was provided to widen the reach. In furtherance of this collaboration, the Committee along with Aajeevika conducted a legal help desk in which, all the legal problems of the migrants were listed down and basic advice was provided by senior members of the Committee.
The Committee endeavoured to generate awareness among the labourers about their basic rights like the provident fund and employers’ liability to pay for their medical expenses if they are injured in an accident while in the course of employment. Herein, the migrants were encouraged to speak about any issues that they faced and were requested to come to the legal help desk to get their grievances registered. The legal help desk had the possibility that, if need be, the lawyers were there in the panel, who could raise the migrant’s plea in court on a pro-bono basis. The legal help desk spanned 4 hours and saw participation by over 50 migrant labourers. The labourers were encouraged to record their grievances formally, with relevant information about their dispute, all of which was duly recorded in the legal aid forms curated by the Committee and Aajeevika.
Apart from this recent camp, the Committee has organised multiple camps with the help of the empanelled pro-bono lawyers. A few matters are also ongoing in different courts.