ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT JALAJ KUMAR, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
National Law University Delhi | New Delhi, India | Advancing SDG 16 & UNAI 6
" "Academic interest and the interest in understanding opinions and expressions apart from one's own. Interest in contributing to the society and change the aspects of it that need such change along with inspiring and spreading awareness on the need to stand up for oneself on the firm and sturdy grounds of legalism." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project Nyayasetu
Project Nyayasetu meaning 'bridge to justice', is aimed at precisely what it signifies. In furtherance of the Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong
Institutions, it attempts to bridge the divide between the promises of justice and the
actualization of justice in two stages. Firstly, by informing ordinary citizens their right to hold their institutions accountable. We make it easier for them to see that their governance systems are beholden to them. Having shown the justice that is promised, we then aim to realize the path to those ends by assessing the way to actualize that promised justice by reviewing the legal aid mechanisms in place. The Project is founded on two verticals wherein one deals with legal aid and the other with the right of citizens to be informed in matters of public governance. This twostep project, we hope can make that divide just a little bit smaller and justice a little more real.
About the Millennium Fellow
Jalaj Kumar is a 2nd year law student at National Law University, Delhi, India. He is a socially active and a diligent student who is interested in and inspired by the revolutionary power of law and legal systems as engines of change and empowerment for groups. He is an avid reader with a particular interest in legal philosophy and historical fiction. He is both a team-worker and a team-leader since one cannot exist apart from another and he understands the value of separate opinions, sometimes even some in conflict with his own, that both widen his view of the world and allow others to find expression.
