Vijayawada: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has released Rs 6,12,65,000 under the YSR Law Nestham scheme to benefit 2,677 junior advocates across AP, as a first tranche of the funds meant for them for 2023-24.
At a programme held at his camp office here on Monday, Jagan Mohan Reddy credited Rs 25,000 -- at the rate of Rs 5,000 per month -- as a stipend for each junior advocate for the period of February to June, 2023.
The Chief Minister, who did this by the click of a button, said the YSR Law Nestham provided the monthly stipend to the junior advocates for the first three years from the time of their enrolment as an advocate. “The aim is to help them stand on their own feet at the beginning phase of their professional career. Each advocate would get a financial assistance of Rs 60,000 per annum. In three years, they would get Rs 1.80 lakh.”
He said that in the last four years since November, 2019, as many as 5,781 junior advocates were benefited from this scheme. So far, an amount of Rs 41.52 crore was given to them under this endeavour.
The CM said the state government has also set up a welfare trust with a corpus fund of Rs 100 crore, which was put under the control of advocate general, for the benefit of advocates. So far, Rs 25 crore was provided to advocates from the welfare trust towards reimbursement of mediclaim and to extend loans to the advocates.
Both the schemes helped the advocates and sent out a message that the state government cared for the advocates, he said.
Jagan Mohan Reddy called upon the junior advocates to help the poor get justice by taking up their cases. “We shall release the second tranche of the Law Nestham in December,” he said.
The CM interacted with the beneficiary junior advocates virtually.
A junior advocate, Ratna Kumari from Guntur, said she was born in a poor family and her uncle helped her to study law. All her family members were getting the benefits of the CM’s welfare schemes and she vowed to hail Jagan Reddy as a role model in the service of the poor.
Another junior advocate, Aravind from Vijayawada, said he got timely financial help under the Law Nestham scheme and thanked the CM. He promised full support from the advocates community to the CM for implementing such a good scheme.
