A big barrier for Indian rural families with insecure land ownership and landlessness , the road side tea vendors, petty shopkeepers, unskilled labours in construction industry, is lack of awareness and inability to demand justice or resolution. They simply do not know what to do about it and find legal channels inaccessible.
The existing legal and administrative systems are not only complicated but unaffordable for the poor. These have never been explained at all to the 80% of our population .
On an average, it takes 15-20 years for a case to move up to the revenue courts and even more in other courts.. For those who rely on daily wages to make the two ends meet and no assets to lean on, the struggle to run around offices and court for follow up is a luxury that they cannot afford. Our justice delivery system has become more inaccessible to poor in these 65 years.
It is becoming meaningless for them if it relates to enforcing their civil rights or seeking a declaration of status either against State or Corporate House or a Otherwise High ups.
Our people find themselves on a real uneven battlefield either in the matter of information that they have about law, procedure,working and the level of expert service they are forced to hire. The effective law services and effective law knowledge is so rare that it is readily hired by the Bigs in the field at the price these LAW-BIGGIES quote for themselves. The courts are also under pressure from these LAW-BIGGIES and hearing the incidental matters of High-ups at the cost of real long over due questions of the masses that should have been answered on priority long ago. The ordinary justice seeker down the street or from a small village in or around a forest area or from the small shop or a small piggery and so on cannot have any option but to get frustrated.
A poor pity
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