On 2^nd of September 2022, National Law University Odisha, Cuttack sharing the vision of our Honourable Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik organized Start up Odisha Yatra 2.0 in its campus. It was envisioned under the shade of Institution’s Innovation Council, NLUO and was organized by LexTech- Centre for Law, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, NLUO.

LexTech- Centre for Law, Entrepreneurship and Innovation is dedicated to incubating, accelerating and mentoring innovative start-ups within and outside NLUO. The centre has registered its presence for more than 5 years now and continues to strive towards its aim of building and supporting entrepreneurs.

The Start-up Odisha van reached National Law University Odisha’s campus at 2 pm, 2nd of September, 2022. LexTech, NLUO. It was marked by the presence of our Registrar Prof Yogesh Pratap Singh and our Vice Chancellor Ma’am Prof Ved Kumari. Registrar Sir gave the welcome speech and motivated the students by his words to move along with their projects. Vice Chancellor Ma’am encouraged the students to produce more and more such ideas and shared her vision of making the Incubation Centre in collaboration with Odisha Hub. It was coordinated by the faculty advisors Ms. Madhubrata Rayasingh, Dr. Arjyalopa Mishra, Dr. Sudatta Barik, and Dr. Mayank Tiwari.

Start-up Odisha Yatra 2.0 has been initiated by Odisha’s Chief Minister, Shri Naveen Patnaik, a flagship initiative of Start-up Odisha. It aims at scouting grassroots innovators, women entrepreneurs, and promoting entrepreneurship among the youth. The Yatra will cover over 100 educational institutions in 30 districts over a period of 60 days. Launching the event, the Chief Minister stated that it will provide entrepreneurial exposure to the young minds and establish the culture of idea generation in the youth. The State has a mission of promoting and incubating 5000 Start-ups by 2025 and Start-up Odisha Yatra 2.0 will be pivotal in bringing innovative ideas to the forefront.

A boot camp was organised at the National Law University Odisha campus premises to encourage idea generation and to develop the spirit of entrepreneurship. A total of 14 ideas were pitched by the students of NLUO out of which most of them belonged to BBA-LLB stream. NLUO is one of the few NLUs which offers BBA-LLB course and helped students gain knowledge of business administration and law.

The ideas pitched by the youngsters will be evaluated and the winners will be awarded exciting cash prizes as announced by the Government of Odisha.

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The NLUO Mediation Cell at the National Law University Odisha was successfully inaugurated by Hon’ble Dr. Justice S. Muralidhar, Chancellor, NLUO & Chief Justice, High Court of Orissa on 15^th August 2022 in the presence of Prof. Ved Kumari, Vice Chancellor, NLUO and Prof. (Dr.) Yogesh Pratap Singh, Registrar, NLUO. The event witnessed huge participation by the local masses including some CMC Corporators of the nearby wards amongst others. Justice Muralidhar unveiled the foundation stone of the newly established Mediation Cell and ushered in a new beginning of institutionally-run Alternative Dispute Resolution forum in India.

The inauguration was followed by a multilingual presentation by the members of the Centre for Mediation and Negotiation (CMN), NLUO wherein they emphasized about the importance of the centre, the vision and goal with which it is set up and the Mediation Cell. Apart from this, the presentation also included the initiatives that have already been undertaken by the Centre as a part of its social activism.

After the presentation, Justice Muralidhar inspected the mediation room which was already equipped with all the resources to formally commence with the mediation sessions. He lauded the student members for having organized the room in a professional yet welcoming way. The student volunteers from the first year of the University had also prepared a skit on, “Mediation: An Alternate Dispute Resolution Mechanism” to spread awareness about the same amongst the local masses and they performed the same. Multilingual handouts containing information about the Centre and the Cell were distributed amongst the attendees. Justice Muralidhar commended the student members, volunteers and faculty advisers of the Centre for having undertaken this initiative which paves the way for Mediation and Negotiation as other feasible methods of dispute resolution amongst the masses.

The NLUO Mediation Cell is the first institutional-run mediation cell in India to provide live mediation services (both private and court-referred mediation). With this initiative, NLUO is striving hard to achieve the constitutional goal of access to justice and free legal aid. NLUO, with the establishment of NLUO Mediation Cell, is also not far from achieving the SDG 16 under UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030, i.e., Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

The NLUO Mediation Cell would be handling multifarious legal disputes including family, matrimonial, property, land and consumer disputes through mediation with the help of faculties-cum-trained mediators, and is looking forward to collaborate with other centres at NLUO and other organizations around. CMN acknowledges the efforts of the Legal Aid Society and the Pro-Bono Club for organizing CMN’s first joint outreach drive to create awareness about the resolution of disputes through mediation amongst the masses.

At the beginning, the Cell will focus on people from nearby places and will gradually extend to the whole state and provide free mediation services both physically and virtually through Online Dispute Resolution (ODR).

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