Where does your day touch the law?
Home & Essentials
Your four walls and everyone who claims a say in them — and the daily goods that cross the doorstep before sunrise.
Walk through Home & Essentials, in order.
Your four walls and everyone who claims a say in them — the society, the landlord, the builder, the goods at your door, and the title-and-tax rules reshaping home ownership now.
Before sunrise: safety & the society
Your four walls, the people who guard them, and the body that runs the building.
The society's shared world
Roads, lights, water, power and the common facilities you pay maintenance for.
Renting a home
The tenant–landlord relationship, from the agreement to getting your deposit back.
Buying property
The paperwork, protections and pitfalls of buying a home.
Daily goods across the doorstep
The FMCG that arrive before sunrise — quality, price and your redress.
The people & services you rely on
Domestic help, utilities, and the deliveries and repairs at your door.
Neighbours & the family home
Frictions across the wall, and who inherits and lives in the home.
The landscape (2023–26)
Title, tax, redevelopment and sustainability rules reshaping the home now.
Free legal help — four routes, not one
On this journeyIndia has a layered free-legal-help system, and most people only ever hear about the last of these. Start at the top — it is the fastest and needs no travel.
- Tele-Lawopen ↗
Advice from a panel lawyer over video or phone, before anything becomes a case.
Walk into any Common Service Centre and ask the operator to book a Tele-Law slot, or use the Tele-Law app. Free for anyone eligible for legal aid, and low-cost otherwise.
- Nyaya Bandhuopen ↗
A pro-bono advocate who has volunteered their time, matched to your application.
Register on the Nyaya Bandhu app or portal and describe the problem; a registered volunteer advocate picks it up.
- Your DLSA legal aid clinic
The District Legal Services Authority — the layer that can appoint a lawyer to actually run your case, and the one that runs the Lok Adalat.
Go to the legal services authority office in your district court complex, or the nearest legal aid clinic, and apply. No fee.
- NALSA helpline15100
The national entry point if you don't know which district authority you fall under.
Call 15100 — toll-free, and it routes you to your state and district authority.
- Vakeels.AIpaidopen ↗
A legal professional you brief online, for the point at which advice is not enough and someone has to act for you.
Describe the matter and pick from the professionals listed. Paid — so try the four free routes above first, since for a great many problems they are enough.
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