Kohima, May 17 (MExN): Pathfinders in collaboration with Initiatives of Change conducted a one day workshop on ‘Effective Services: Tools and Techniques’ in Kohima for the Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) on May 16.
Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mezivolu T. Therieh, State Resource Centre for Women, Kohima District Legal Services Authority, Nagaland Information Commission, State Intelligence Bureau, Kohima Law College, Kohima Municipal Council and staff of NSLSA were present at the workshop.
Nino Iralu, Member Secretary, NSLSA, shared about the legal services NSLSA provides. “Besides just creating awareness, NSLSA also looks at the human aspect,” she said. The Authority visits jails to see the condition of the prisoners and also monitors the children in the observation and special homes. Along with the Government department, it also sees the needs of the children, and the women in distress or the destitute women, she stated.
A press release received here said that the Initiatives of Change (IofC) team spoke about the need for personal change first to become more effective in one’s public service. “If we listen to the still small voice and obey the thought, it will lead each person to do something extraordinary,” they highlighted. The team informed that IofC is a movement which began 108 years ago; it now has a presence in over 60 countries.
The IofC team comprised of Suresh Khatri from the Fiji Islands, a full time volunteer with the movement for the past 50 years; Gaurav Sah, a commerce graduate from Nainital; Wangyal, also a commerce graduate from Tibet; Anup Pawar, former marketing and sales manager from Pune; Stephania Menezes, a software engineer from Kuwait; and Vitono Haralu, Director of Pathfinders, a Nagaland based NGO.
Suresh Khatri stressed that what is needed now is a 17th tribe that Nagaland starts for the whole world to join. “A tribe of the totally truthful, totally trustworthy, and totally tolerant. People whose lives will be fully transparent, preferably teetotallers, and the most kind-hearted.”
The 28 participants also shared their own concerns for the legal system and Nagaland and what they feel needs to be changed in themselves, the release added.
