vijay shankar
PATNA; Mrs Chhaya Mishra,a veteran woman advocate of Bihar has urged the Union finance minister to introduce welfare and insurance schemes for lawyers,
In a letter sent to Mrs Nirmala Seetharaman, the former joint secretary of the Advocates Association, said lawyers had been hit hard due to year long lock down. Due to the closure of courts, advocates literally became pauper. in the three phases plans to rejuvenate economy, no relief was proposed for the advocates.
Mrs Chhaya Mishra demanded group insurance scheme for practicing lawyers for Rs 20 lakhs each, welfare fund of Rs 2,000 crores as corpus fund and group insurance scheme for all advocates from munsif courts to Supreme Court.