India, July 26 -- The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) unveiled a scheme on Saturday to provide free legal aid services for soldiers and their families under the 'Veer Parivar Sahayata Yojana'.

The scheme, which has been unveiled on the Kargil Vijay Diwas, was inaugurated at a conference in Srinagar by Justice Surya Kant, Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA).

Under the NALSA scheme, legal service clinics will be set up in Sainik Welfare Boards across all states, PTI quoted Kuldeep Sharma, Secretary and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of District Legal Services Authority, as saying.

The free legal aid at these clinics will be provided to both retired and serving soldiers and their family memb...