KERALA STIPEND SCHEME FOR JUNIOR LAWYERS
The Chief Minister of Kerala recently launched the Stipend scheme for lawyers in the state. The scheme is to be implemented by the Bar Council of the state. The council will be joined by the Advocates Welfare Trust. Under the scheme, the junior lawyers in the state will be paid three thousand rupees every month.
Contents
• Eligibility
• Need of the scheme
Eligibility
Only junior lawyers are eligible to receive the benefits of the scheme. Also, the lawyers should have at least three years of practice experience. Their annual income should be less than one lakh rupees.
Need of the scheme
Junior lawyers are law graduates who work under attorneys or legal associates. They mostly do the documenting work in a case. They do research and prepare notes for their seniors. He is mostly a helping hand. The payment received by the junior lawyers is very less. Apart from this, the training they receive is also very less. After legal education, it is essential for every lawyer to get trained under a senior to learn practical experiences. Rather than five years of study, this training period is crucial to them. However, they struggle financially as all the seniors do not pay enough. Thus, Kerala Government has launched this scheme to help the junior during their struggle period.
TRIVIA:
Pinarayi Vijayan ( born 24 May 1945) is an Indian Communist politician who is the current Chief Minister of Kerala, serving since 25 May 2016. A member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), he is the longest-serving secretary of the Kerala State Committee of the CPI(M) (1998–2015). He also served in the government of Kerala as Minister of Electric Power and Co-operatives from 1996 to 1998. Vijayan won a seat in the May 2016 Kerala Legislative
Assembly election as the CPI(M) candidate for Dharmadom constituency and was selected as the leader of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and became the 12th Chief Minister of Kerala. He is the first chief minister from Kerala to be reelected after completing a full term (five years) in office. In 2022, he also became the longest-continuous serving chief minister of Kerala surpassing C. Achutha Menon who had been the first to remain in office for 2364 consecutive days.