OSLSA Hosts 40-Hour Mediation Training Workshop For Advocates

Starting on the day of Utkal Divas, the Odisha State Legal Services Authority (OSLSA) organized a 40-hour Mediation Training Workshop for advocates in western Odisha, in accordance with the NALSA module.

The training workshop will run from April 1st to 5th, 2023. This Workshop drew 24 advocates from Odisha’s western districts, including Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, and Sambalpur.

In the presence of Justice Krushna Ram Mohapatra, Justice Savitri Ratho, and Justice Mruganka Sekhar Sahoo, the program was inaugurated by Justice S. Talapatra, Executive Chairman of OSLSA and Chairman of the Mediation Monitoring Committee.

While delivering the inaugural address, Justice Talapatra stated that mediation does not cost anything. Mediation participants do not lose their dignity or self-respect, but rather their ego and unreasonableness.

On the other hand, Justice Mohapatra encouraged the trainee advocates to use the Workshop as a foundation to undergo the training and understand the fundamentals of it so that they can resolve disputes effectively.

Joining the cause, Justice Sahoo emphasized that a good mediator must be trustworthy, approachable, dedicated, perceptive, and impartial, among other qualities, and that the solution is found by the parties themselves, not by the mediator.

The Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee’s (MCPC) expert trainers, Ms. Rathna Thara R. and Dr. S. Padma, are providing the training.