Statesman News Service
MALDA, Dec. 31: The sate jail and social welfare minister Mr Biswanath Choudhury will inaugurate the Legal Aid Clinic for the inmates at the Balurghat jail tomorrow. National Legal Service Authorities has introduced the new concept to help the inmates from poverty line to get legal assistance free of cost. Balughat jail authorities said this programme is a gift for the inmates for 2007 and that the inmates would welcome and celebrate the New Year with the inauguration of the Legal Aid Clinic. The Legal Aid Service will help the inmates providing legal assistance to get justice. In order to make Balurghat jail a model jail, the minister has planned to introduce the programme, officials, said.The chief judicial magistrate Ms Anjali Sinha will be the president of the Legal Aid Clinic in Balughat jail. Officials said that the state government has planned to make the Balurghat jail a model one. The jail authorities said the state is planning to acquire land to set up an open-air jail (correctional home) in Balurghat. On the other hand, the government is planning to acquire land to set up sub-jail in Gangarampur for Buniadpur sub-division in South Dinajpur. At least five acres of land is required to set up a sub-jail in Gangarampur, they said. Like open-air correctional home in Murshidabad, the South Dinajpur district authorities are trying hard to get land for setting up a similar jail in Balurghat, sources said. The inamates of Balurghat jail, meanwhile, have expressed satisfaction over the proposed inauguration of the Legal Aid Clinic.They thanked Mr Choudhury for the initiative.#
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