Annexure ‘CD – 01’

FORMAT FOR COURSE CURRICULUM

L T P/ SW/ No. TOTAL

Course Title: LAW POVERTY and DEVELOPMENT S FW of CREDIT
Credit Units: 03 PS UNITS
Course Code: LAW 521 DA
Course Level:UG
03 - - - 03
Course Objectives: The objective of this paper is to provide an understanding of basic concepts of poverty and development and their relationship with law.

 Pre-requisites: Student should have an idea about poverty and development.

 Student should have idea about Constitutional provisions, other legislations, judicial attempts and Government Policies regarding poverty and
development.
 Student should know about criminal justice system in India.
 Student should have idea about legislation protecting labour, women and children.

Course Contents/Syllabus:
Weightage (%)
Module I Understanding Law, Poverty and Development    (International Conventions and UN Plan need to be 25 %
taught with relevant topics)
Law- Meaning and Relationship between law poverty and development.

Poverty- Concept of poverty and Poor Types, Issues, Dimensions, Poverty Line and BPL, Government Schemes to
Control Poverty and Support Development, Niti Ayog and It’s Recommendation, International Dimensions of Poverty

Development- meaning, Features, indicators, development index.

Economic Plan on Poverty, Hunger, and Malnutrition.

Module II: Constitutional Guarantees for the Poor 25%

(International Conventions and UN Plan need to be taught with relevant topics)
Right to Equality, Constitutional, Judicial and Legislative efforts towards:
  Right to Food
 Right to Work
 Right to Housing
Denial of Right to Livelihood, Abolition of Untouchability, Poverty & Judicial Review
Equal pay for equal work, Right to Education, Right to Dignity.

Module III: Criminal Justice System and the Poor 25%

(International Conventions and UN Plan need to be taught with relevant topics)

Treatment of Police towards Poor, Problems of Poor Under trials, Right to Free Legal Aid and Lok Adalat. Justice,
Poverty, and Pandemic

Module IV: Conceptualizing and Defining Impoverishment (International Conventions and UN Plan need to be 25%
taught with relevant topics)

Concept of Impoverishment,
Position of Women in Indian Legal System, Women Workers - organized and unorganized sectors, Migrant Worker
Crisis: Rights and Government Polices
Children – Issues and Legal Protections, Rights of The Disabled in India

Course Learning Outcomes:

 Understanding of the basic general principles related to poverty eradication, development, and problems faced by the weaker sections of society.
 Analyze various parameters of poverty and involvement of law.
 Evaluate the legislative, judicial and policy attempts towards poverty eradication.
 Examine the procedural aspects whereby poor, women, disabled and children can be given protection.
 Evaluate the understanding of the subject through case study.
 Recognizing the problems of underprivileged in India
Pedagogy for Course Delivery:

The class will be taught using theory and case based method. In addition to assigning the case studies, the course instructor will spend considerable time in
understanding the concept of innovation through new case laws. The instructor will cover the ways to think innovatively liberally using thinking techniques.
The instructor will conduct sessions by giving various situations to understand the application of law poverty and development.

Lab/ Practicals details, if applicable:

List of Experiments:

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Assessment/ Examination Scheme:

Theory L/T (%) Lab/Practical/Studio (%)

100 (30+70) NA

Theory Assessment (L&T):

Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment End Term
(_30_ %) Examination
(_70_%)
Components (Drop
down) Class Test Project( Research Case Study Attendance
Paper)
Linkage of PSDA with Case Study
Internal Assessment (Evaluation and
Component, if any presentation of the
case)
Weightage (%) 10% 10% 5% 5% 70

Lab/ Practical/ Studio Assessment:

 Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment End Term
(____ %) Examination
(____ %)
Components (Drop NA
down
Weightage (%)

Text Reading:
 Altekar, A.S. State and Government in Ancient India
 Sorabjee, Soli J. Law and Justice : an anthology
 Agnes, Flavia Law and Gender Inequality
 Atal, Yogesh Poverty Question : Search For Solution
 Amarendra Poverty, Rural Development and Public Finance
 Upendra Baxi Law,Poverty and Development
 Maj.Gen.Nilendra Kumar : Law, Poverty & Development

References:
 David Bilchitz, Poverty and Fundamental Rights: The Justification and Enforcement of Socio‐Economic Rights
 Jean Dreze, Democracy and the Right to Food in Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement (Alston and Robinson ed., OUP,
2005)

Additional Reading: CASELAWS

 Olga Tellis v Bombay Municipal Corporation AIR 1986 SC 180

 PUCL v Union of India (2001)
 Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom 2000 (11) BCLR 1169 (CC)
 Minister of Health v Treatment Action Campaign (2002)
 TN Godavarman v Union of India
 Narmada Bachao Andolan v Union of India
 Butu Prasad Kumbhar v SAIL 1995 Supp 2 SCC 225
Any other Study Material:
 Government Schemes
 International Documents related to Subject.
 (Decided by the teaching faculty)