The Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights have approved five projects worth Rs 31.65 million to enhance capacity-building of law officials and public awareness regarding redress of problems being faced by the common man.
The approved schemes included basic computer-orientation training for district judges and officers, development of the web portal and web-based monitoring and evaluation, and automation software for Access to Justice Programme, public awareness on new initiatives under the Police Order, 2002, annual Judicial Conference, and capacity building of the National Public Safety Commission (NPSC) for policing plans.
These schemes would be implemented by the Access to Justice Programme (AJP), National Police Bureau (NPB), and the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP).
The technical committee of the Access to Justice Programme (AJP), the Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights gave final approval to the schemes worth Rs 31.65 million last week while former Justice Mansoor Ahmed, federal secretary law and justice, in the chair.
According to details, four domestic consulting firms would be hired for each province to train 1,848 selected officers of the district judiciary who would benefit from the training over a period of six months.
About 122 training workshops would be conducted and consultants in each province would provide consulting services for a period of 104 domestic person-months over the six month period.
The web portal of the AJP would also include content management system and complaint handling system. Besides providing easy access to information and policy documents, the web portal would provide speedy remedy and redress the complaints from the common people. The public awareness campaign on Police Order, 2002 would inform and educate the public, particularly the vulnerable sections of the society of their rights and the new initiatives that the government of Pakistan has taken under the Police Order, 2002, thus, it would lead to greater police-public co-operation.
The annual judicial conference would provide an opportunity to the participants from the justice sector institutions to learn from the experiences of each other and adopt the best practices of their counterparts across the country.