NALSA SAMVAD Scheme, 2025 seeks to improve legal awareness, outreach and delivery of legal services by adopting a community-based outreach-driven approach

• SAMVAD = Strengthening Access to Justice for Marginalized, Vulnerable Adivasis and Denotified/Nomadic Tribes; a NALSA scheme launched April 2025 to deliver community-based legal services to STs, PVTGs, and DNTs.
• Operationalises Article 39A (free legal aid) and the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 through dedicated District-level SAMVAD Units.
• UPSC relevance: tribal justice, vulnerable groups, governance delivery, and legal aid architecture — a fresh hook for GS-II.