BLAST working for legal rights of unprivileged people: Speakers


A Correspondent | Published: July 30, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00



RAJSHAHI, July 29: Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) is working to ensure the legal rights of the unprivileged communities of the country. BLAST also provides legal aid, advice and representation to the people incapable of operating litigations due to social impotency.
Speakers on behalf of BLAST said this while addressing a view exchange meeting with local journalists at a restaurant in the city Tuesday.
The speakers further said that the helpless and poor people have come under the purview of the Legal Aid by the legal cell of BLAST.
Tardiness in the process of cases has been reduced through disposal of the arbitrations.
By providing justice free of cost, BLAST has paved the way for creating public confidence in the legal system.
Now it has been possible to reach legal services to the doorsteps of marginalised community by the efforts of this organisation, they added.
BLAST Rajshahi unit coordinator Advocate Abdus Samad moderated the programme while BLAST staff Adv. Samina Begum, advocacy officer Rajendra Kumar Das, and fellow Punam Chakrabarty presented information about activities of the BLAST in Rajshahi.
Among others, senior journalists- Mostafizur Rahman Khan Alam, Kazi Giyas, SMA Qader, Hasan Millat, and Tasikul Islam Bakul, Channel i bureau chief Abu Saleh Mohammad Fattah, Saurav Habib of ATN News, and Anisuzzaman of Daily Ittefaq spoke on the occasion.    ritushar.ru@gmail.com

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