Government today launched a video conferencing aided legal service 'Tele Law' for the people living in rural areas. Launching the service IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, the legal aid to poor through Tele-Law will fulfill the government's commitment to ensure access to justice and empowerment of the poor. <br/><br/>Under the scheme, the Tele-Law portal will be available across the Common Service Centre (CSC) network connecting the citizens to legal service providers. The portal will connect law school clinics, District Legal Service Authorities, voluntary service providers and Non-Government Organisations working on legal through the CSCs.<br/><br/>Also, the National Legal Services Authority's panel of lawyers from state capitals will provide legal advice and counseling to the applicants across the 1000 CSC through video conferencing.<br/> <br/>In the first phase, the Tele-Law scheme will be tested as a pilot across 500 CSCs in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.