PANAJI: Devi Sharvani Education Society’s V. M. Salgaocar College of Law (VMSCL), Miramar; signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI), New Delhi, on 17th August 2022 for sensitising and providing legal assistance and awareness of Cooperative Law to needy people, stated a press note.
The marvellous work performed by the Legal Aid Society of VMSCL for last 25 years is instrumental in choosing VMSCL for this collaboration by NCUI, New Delhi. The MoU between the two organisations, aims to spread awareness of Cooperative laws, to initiate ‘Campus Cooperative’ to create awareness about benefits of cooperative societies, to organise awareness camps to sensitise about cooperative form of business, to organise training programmes for members of Cooperative societies, to mobilise support for Cooperative societies and to provide internship opportunities for the students of the Law College.
Dr. B.S. Patil, Director of Internal Quality Assurance Cell of the Law college, welcomed the dignitaries for the MoU-Signing Ceremony held in College Conference Hall here in North Goa. The authorised signatories, Dr. Sudhir Mahajan, IAS (Retd.), Chief Executive of NCUI and Dr. Shaber Ali G, Principal of VMSCL, delivered the congratulatory Atddress. Sumit Singh, Advisor – Strategy and Cooperation, NCUI, proposed the Vote of Thanks. The function was compered by Gautami Kamat, Student In-charge of Santa Cruz Free Legal Aid Cell. The other attendees were D.P. Pednekar, Administrator of VMSCL, faculty members and members of 26 Free Legal Aid Cells of the Legal Aid Society of VMSCL.
