Vision and Mission

To promote an inclusive legal system in order to ensure fair and meaningful justice to the marginalized and disadvantaged sector.

“Access to justice” being the core theme of the legal services authorities; it find it genesis from Article 39 A of the Constitution of India. Article 39 A of the Constitution of India provides for free legal aid to the poor and weaker sections of the society, to promote justice on the basis of equal opportunity. More precisely, Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution also make it obligatory for the State to ensure equality before law. Hence in such backdrop, the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 was enacted by the Parliament, to create a uniform system for providing free and competent legal services to the weaker and marginalized sections of the society. With the enactment of said act, the idea of providing legal aid has become reality right from the Supreme Court of India to the Taluk level.

The Assam State Legal Services Authority(ASLSA) was constituted in the year 1998 under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 to provide free Legal Services to the weaker sections of the society and to organize Lok Adalats for amicable settlement of disputes, being fully functional from April, 1999. The Chief Justice of the High Court is the Patron-in-Chief and the senior most judge is designated as the Executive Chairman of the State Legal Services Authority.

To legally empower the marginalized and excluded groups of the society by providing effective legal representation, legal literacy and awareness and bridging the gap between the legally available benefits and the entitled beneficiaries.​

To strengthen the system of Lok Adalats and other Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanisms in order to provide for informal, quick, inexpensive and effective resolution of disputes and minimize the load of adjudication on the overburdened judiciary.

India being a welfare state it is very important to uplift the marginalized and deprived section of the society. Therefore, the main motive of the ASLSA is to bring on board the deprived section of the society so that they can march along with mainstream society irrespective of their class, creed, background, disability, gender, sexual orientation and other aspects. Hence ASLSA aims to work effectively so that change could be bought to a person’s life and he/she can walk along with the civilized society.