LAKKI MARWAT, March 5: To provide free legal assistance to Citizen Community Boards (CCBs) and create awareness about the role of CCBs in the development process, the Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment (DTCE), a component of the National Reconstruction Bureau, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Lakki District Bar Association and District Press Club here on Monday.

Under the agreement the bar association would support the Citizen Community Boards and extend free legal aid in this respect so as to remove injustices being meted out with CCBs at any level.

Local journalists would also play their role in promotion of CCBs, projection of its uplift activities, highlighting its problems and launching awareness campaign to persuade people to organise CCBs.

The DTCE would provide financial assistance and other relevant support to Bar and Press Club to enable the two organisations carry out the task successfully.

The ceremony to sign MoU was held at the District Bar office.

Speaking on the occasion, the Executive District Officer of the Social Welfare and Community Development Department, Shafqat Amin, said that Rs10 million had been earmarked to carry out development schemes in the district through the involvement of CCBs.

Meanwhile, the Lakki Bar and Lakki Press Club constituted separate committees to provide free legal assistance to CCBs as well as to ensure projection of its activities in the print and electronic media.

The free legal aid committee of the District Bar Association comprises Abdul Aziz Khan, Azizur Rehman, Mohammad Yaqoob Khan, Sardar Ali Khan, Ghazi Marjan and Kiramatullah.