Kerala’s Law Department is the bedrock of state-level legal governance, tasked with drafting legislation and subordinate rules, issuing legal advice to Secretariat departments, overseeing conveyancing, notaries, translations, and publishing the state’s laws. It also handles Right-to-Information (RTI) requests for legal documents and maintains the state’s Law Library. In short, it’s the Secretariat’s legal nerve centre, but for citizens and junior officials, its processes remain hidden behind PDFs, slow paper files, and Tribunals.

Weone, the citizen-facing governance super-app, launched by the startup company Intia with the support of the Local Self-Government Department, can open that nerve centre to the public and walk officers through contracts and circulars with real-time support.

1.    Push Notifications for New Laws & Circulars

Kerala routinely enacts state laws and subsidiary legislation — such as on notaries, court-fees, or community-specific acts. These arrive as dense PDFs on the Law Department and Gazette websites. With weone, the department can launch a verified “Kerala Law” channel that pushes quick summaries, highlights affected sections (e.g. conveyancing rates raised, new limits on RTI fees), and sends alerts tagged by user preference - legal professionals, civic bodies, or laypeople. Users can then save, share, or subscribe to future alerts.

2.    “Where’s My Draft?” – Tracking Legislative Files

In the age of e-Office, file trails are digital, but hard to decode. Embedding an API that shows a file’s progress through stages (“Draft ↔ Review by Ministers ↔ Cabinet ↔ Gazette approval”) would empower junior officers and departments to track their legislative references through the Law Secretariat in real time, minimizing calls, follow-ups, and delays.

3.    One-click RTI Submission & Delivery

As custodian of legal publications, the Law Department receives RTI requests for statutes, bills, and notaries information. Weone can streamline that with:

• A guided RTI form for law topics
• Status tracker against statutory timelines
• Final PDF responses uploaded by officials
• Auto-escalation if deadlines lapse

Instead of snail-mail and postal order hassles, citizens get quick answers, and the department retains a clear RTI audit trail.

4.    Legal Advice Requests – Fast-Track Portal

Secretariat departments frequently await the Law Department's legal opinion on draft policies or agreements. A “Law Advisory” tile in ‘weone’ would enable officers to:

• Submit a case summary and upload supporting documents
• Browse past advisory memos on similar issues
• Receive a status ring (“Received → Under Review → Draft Issued”)
  Push notifications alert when advice is ready — greatly reducing policy stall points.

5.    Simplified Legislative Glossary & Guided Help

Legal texts are dense, and even public-assisted bodies need clarity. Embed a “Legal Lexicon” in weone with definitions - “What is an Ordinance?”, “How does a Select Committee work?”, “What is subsidiary legislation?”. Citizen-facing FAQs would reduce RTI volume and deepen legal literacy across civic society.

6.    Analytics for Policy Monitoring & Compliance

Every app tap, advisory request, RTI filing, or notary issuance generates data. Visual dashboards can reveal:

• Most-requested laws or advisory topics (e.g. land acquisition, contract wording)
• Average Law advice turnaround time
• RTI backlog and appeal escalations
• Hotspots for enforcement (e.g. court-fee disputes)

With real-time insights, the department can sharpen staffing, staffing, communication, and accountability, moving from reactive fixes to strategic oversight.

Why This Matters

• Citizens gain clarity on their legal rights — no more PDF confusion.
• Secretariat officers track policy advice without inbox backlog.
• Law Dept staff swap file queries for advisory quality control.
• Government moves towards transparent, paperless legal governance —elevating Kerala's #1 ranking for devolved legal administration.

Making Law Accessible

Kerala’s Law Department shapes the legal scaffolding of governance, from regulations on notaries to contract law and legislative oversight. But its work often remains locked in back offices and dusty gazettes. By embedding advisory, filing, tracking, and legal literacy into weone, Kerala can make law accessible, accountable, and agile — for courts, departments, and citizens alike.

Legal protection, legal progress, and all with a tap