**Executive Summary**
This report, posted on February 6, 2026, details the implementation of various legal aid schemes by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987. These schemes, launched in 2025, aim to provide comprehensive legal and social support to marginalized communities. It also outlines the funds allocated and utilized for these programs in the financial year 2025-26 (up to December 2025).
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **NALSA Schemes Implementation:**
* NALSA implements schemes like SPRUHA, Veer Parivar Sahayata Yojana, JAGRITI, and the Human-Wildlife Conflict Victims Scheme as legal aid initiatives.
* Tele-Law program provides pre-litigation advice, benefiting 1.12 crore people.
* **Specific Scheme Details:**
* **NALSA SPRUHA (2025):** Provides comprehensive legal and social support to prisoners and their dependents, emphasizing rehabilitation and reintegration.
* **NALSA Veer Parivar Sahayata Yojana (2025):** Offers timely free legal aid to defense personnel, ex-servicemen, and their dependents, specifically on property, family, consumer, and succession matters.
* Between July and September 2025, 5,219 beneficiaries were assisted via 417 Legal Aid Clinics at Zila Sainik Boards.
* **NALSA JAGRITI (2025):** Strengthens grassroots legal awareness by integrating Legal Services Institutions with local self-government bodies.
* Between July and December 2025, 690 District Units and 2,129 Taluk Units were established, and over 35,000 Permanent Legal Aid Clinics were set up.
* Focused on issues like POCSO, child marriage, and domestic violence, reaching 35,24,711 people.
* **NALSA Scheme for Victims of Human-Wildlife Conflict (2025):** Addresses legal, social, and economic challenges faced by those affected in forest-fringe and tribal areas.
* **NALSA Framework:**
* NALSA coordinates and strengthens legal aid implementation through a decentralized network: 37 SLSAs, 707 DLSAs, and 2,440 TLSCs.
* **Financial Details (2025-26):**
* Grants to NALSA:
* Grants-in-aid: ₹200.00 Crore
* Under LADCS Scheme: ₹195.84 Crore
* Grants Utilized by NALSA:
* Grants-in-aid: ₹144.65 Crore
* Under LADCS Scheme: ₹194.17 Crore
**Impact Analysis**
**Prisoners, undertrial inmates, and their dependents**
* **Impact:** Access to comprehensive legal and social support aimed at rehabilitation and reintegration.
* **Action Required:** Engage with available resources such as legal aid, counseling, and post-release support to reduce recidivism.
**Defense personnel, ex-servicemen, and their dependents**
* **Impact:** Entitlement to free and timely legal aid, particularly for property, family, consumer, and succession matters.
* **Action Required:** Utilize Legal Aid Clinics at Zila Sainik Boards for assistance with relevant legal issues.
**Individuals in forest-fringe and tribal areas affected by human-wildlife conflict**
* **Impact:** Access to legal aid, awareness programs, compensation, and allied reliefs to address legal, social, and economic challenges.
* **Action Required:** Engage with available legal and support services to understand rights and access available compensation.
**Marginalized communities**
* **Impact:** Increased access to justice through legal aid programs, aiming to remove economic and social barriers.
* **Action Required:** Utilize the legal aid programs and activities to address legal issues and claim entitled benefits.
Key Entities Referenced
National Legal Services Authority (NALSA): Established under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, NALSA coordinates and strengthens the implementation of legal aid across the country.
Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987: The act under which NALSA was established and that governs the implementation of legal aid services.
SPRUHA Scheme, 2025: A NALSA legal aid scheme supporting prisoners, undertrial inmates, and their dependents, focusing on rehabilitation and reintegration.
Veer Parivar Sahayata Yojana, 2025: A NALSA legal aid scheme aimed at ensuring timely free legal aid to defence personnel, ex-servicemen, and their dependents.
JAGRITI Scheme, 2025: A NALSA legal aid scheme aimed to strengthen grassroots legal awareness by integrating Legal Services Institutions with Local Self-Government bodies and community infrastructure.
Ministry of Law and Justice
IMPLEMENTATION OF LEGAL AID AND NALSA
SCHEMES
Posted On: 06 FEB 2026 1:39PM by PIB Delhi
The Scheme such as SPRUHA, 2025; Veer Parivar Sahayata Yojana, 2025; JAGRITI 2025; and the
Human–Wildlife Conflict Victims Scheme are implemented by NALSA as legal aid Schemes, whereas
Tele-Law is a program under the Central Sector Scheme named Designing Innovative Solution for
Holistic Access to Justice (DISHA) of the Department of Justice through which 1.12 crore beneficiaries
have been rendered pre-litigation advice till date.
The NALSA SPRUHA (Supporting Potential and Resilience of the Unseen, Held-back and Affected)
Scheme, 2025 is a newly introduced initiative to provide comprehensive legal and social support to
prisoners, undertrial inmates, and their dependents, with emphasis on rehabilitation and reintegration. It
addresses legal, social, and economic vulnerabilities through free legal aid, counselling, bail and parole
assistance, linkage with welfare schemes, coordination with prison and district authorities, legal
awareness, and post-release support to reduce recidivism and promote social reintegration.
The NALSA Veer Parivar Sahayata Yojana, 2025, launched in July 2025, aims to ensure timely free legal
aid to defence personnel, ex-servicemen, and their dependents, particularly for property, family, consumer,
and succession matters. Between July 2025 and September 2025, 5,219 beneficiaries were assisted
through 417 Legal Aid Clinics at Zila Sainik Boards. During this period, 692 legal aid and outreach
activities were conducted with the support of 525 Para Legal Volunteers and 355 Panel Lawyers, reflecting
rapid operationalisation and expanding outreach.
The NALSA (JAGRITI – Justice Awareness for Grassroots Information and Transparency Initiative)
Scheme, 2025, aims to strengthen grassroots legal awareness by integrating Legal Services Institutions
with Local Self-Government bodies and community infrastructure. Between July 2025 and December
2025, 690 District Units and 2,129 Taluk Units were established, and over 35,000 Permanent Legal Aid
Clinics were set up. A total of 35,24,711 persons were made aware of legal aid and welfare schemes. The
Scheme focused largely on issues such as POCSO, child marriage, and domestic violence, reflecting a
strong focus on protection of women and children.
The NALSA Scheme for Victims of Human–Wildlife Conflict, 2025 aims to address legal, social, and
economic challenges faced by affected individuals in forest-fringe and tribal areas by facilitating legal aid,
awareness, compensation, and allied reliefs in line with Articles 21 and 48A of the Constitution.
The details of funds allocated by the Government for implementation of various legal aid services and
programmes framed under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, during the financial year viz. 2025-26
(upto December 2025) is as under:
Rs. in CroreGrants to NALSA Grants Utilised by NALSA
200.00 (Grants-in-aid) 144.65
195.84 (under LADCS Scheme) 194.17
The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) was established under the Legal Services Authorities
Act, 1987 to coordinate, monitor, and strengthen the implementation of legal aid across the country.
NALSA operates through a decentralized institutional framework comprising 37 State Legal Services
Authorities (SLSAs), 707 District Legal Services Authorities (DLSAs) and 2,440 Taluk Legal Services
Committees (TLSCs) and works in close coordination with all States and Union Territories, in the spirit of
cooperative federalism, to address issues of unequal access and delays in legal aid and to ensure uniform,
timely, and equitable delivery of legal services, particularly to marginalized and vulnerable sections of
society.
All legal aid activities and schemes formulated by NALSA are implemented in accordance with the
provisions of the Legal Services Authorities (LSA) Act, 1987. Accordingly, all eligible beneficiaries under
the Act are provided access to justice through the various legal aid programmes and activities undertaken
by NALSA which aims to remove economic and social barriers in access to justice for marginalized
communities.
This information was given by the MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE
MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE; AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF
PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal in Lok Sabha today.
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