The Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Law and Justice, and the Bar Council of India held a national conference in New Delhi on strengthening legal education through integration of regional languages. The conference is relevant for UPSC because it connects legal education, access to justice, and the practical language needs of district and subordinate courts.
The stated objective was to prepare a Ten-Year Perspective Action Plan for promoting legal education in Hindi and other Indian languages and for strengthening the justice delivery system.
What the conference proposed
Participants discussed a phased, structured, measurable, and quality-assured framework for integrating Indian languages into legal education. The framework is intended to preserve English as an important national and international link language while expanding bilingual and progressively multilingual legal education.
The stated policy aim is to improve legal comprehension, widen access to justice, strengthen legal aid and clinical legal education, and better prepare future lawyers for practice before district and subordinate courts.
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