NLS 2018 grad Jeydev CS scores tough 5th rank in UPSC exam, plus top ranks from NLU-D, NLU-J [UPDATING]

Tuesday, 4 August 2020 By Legally India Graduates & Bar Exam

NLSIU Bangalore law graduate Jeydev CS has come fifth place in the prestigious and notoriously competitive Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services Examination 2019, according to Bar & Bench on Twitter.

The strong showing from at least one lawyer (though there are likely to be more) mirrors that of last year, when NLU Delhi’s Vaishali Singh came eighth alongside ranks of at least 12 others.

Jaydev is a 2018 graduate of NLSIU Bangalore, where he had been a successful quizzer [correction: and also debater, though that specific link was not to a debate] and mooter, having been part of the team that won the international Henry Dunant moot in 2015.

If there are any other law graduates or lawyers who have scored highly in the UPSC exams, please do share in the comments.

The full list is available here.

Updates, thanks to commenters:

  • 35: Kanchan Singhla, from NLU Delhi, according to the Tribune (thanks to the commenter who confirmed!).
  • 140 Karshi Jain, 2016 NLU Jodhpur.
  • 189: Sonakshi Saxena of 2016 NLSIU.
  • 253: Saloni Jain, 2016 NLU Delhi.

(Correction: the 51st rank is not from NLIU Bhopal)

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)

Comments

Yogi D 4 Aug 2020, 10:34
+18 -0
Sonakshi Saxena AIR 189 batch of 2016 NLS
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 11:31
+7 -62
Kian, it only matters if it is rank 1. No one remembers below that.
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 09:40
+11 -2
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First comment 4 Aug 2020, 10:37
+7 -9
First comment :D
Babbar 4 Aug 2020, 10:47
Troll
+30 -71
A colonial service where date of entry and not merit or hard work governs your seniority and promotions for life, a licking the boots of politicians and signing all kinds of nonsensical orders, rules and directions. If a young NLU graduate wants to do this for the next 35 years there is something wrong with NLUs. Even slaving away at a sweatshop law firm is better and has more self-respect. But I guess there's a sucker born every minute.
true 4 Aug 2020, 11:03
+20 -32
100% agreed. The civil service is what is really holding India back. No other mature democracy has such a feudal system in governance. Very sad to see young Law Schoolites falling into this trap.
Not true 4 Aug 2020, 13:11
+27 -2
No, that’s not true. The Australian public service has secretaries, the Irish government has secretaries-general, the United Kingdom has permanent secretaries, Canada has deputy ministers and New Zealand has chief executives. So, this model is followed in a lot of OECD high-income nations. The civil services provide a good opportunity to serve the nation for those who want to serve it.

As far as the reason of our backwardness is concerned, why not look at it in an intersectional manner? Political executive, permanent executive, legislators, and even judges and advocates are in part responsible for the state of the nation, whether good or bad.
Babbar 4 Aug 2020, 18:46
+9 -12
All these examples you mention, the civil service works more like the private sector. Performance is monitored, people are asked to leave and age/ batch does not govern seniority, and people get hired laterally and also leave after a spell. In Indian civil service a guy entering in 2023 batch can never be promoted over someone of 2020 batch even after 20 years of service. At least in the law firms you find plenty of examples of fast promotees to partner and delayed promotions (in CAM a 2007 batch PA was made partner recently whereas her batchmates had become partner as early as 2015). Have you ever heard of a bad IAS officer not getting his time bound promotion or advancement in rank? So dont compare these countries with India
BS 4 Aug 2020, 20:17
+16 -1
Yes, you are right when you said that there are considerable number of bad apples in the public services. Most of them continue to stay and don't face any consequences because of how the system is designed, unfortunately.

Now that should not in any way deter amazingly bright students from law schools to enter public services instead of law firms. Law school caters to diverse groups of people with varied aspirations and one cannot deny that civil services is a great platform. The public services is extremely under staffed and lacks good leadership whereas the corporates in India have consultants for every small thing i.e. they are overserved. Students should be encouraged to enter public services because let's face it, you can't change anything unless you get inside the muddy waters of bureaucracy and politics. Those who can do this, should do.
Babbar 5 Aug 2020, 10:05
+5 -8
It's not a question of bad apples, lol. The entire civil service system stinks and I call into question the motives or mental state of any enlightened law school graduate who wants to become part of that. Probably a case of lal-batti fascination. Maybe they will learn after a few years in the service how trapped they are, unfortunately by then they will have very few career options in the legal profession so most are forced to continue. On the contrary more and more young officers with integrity are quitting the services because they are unable to accept being rubber stamps / errand boys. for their seniors.
Ulterior? 5 Aug 2020, 14:52
+3 -0
Rahul to gaya, if you know what I mean
MydearBabbarSher 5 Aug 2020, 01:28
+12 -1
What mostly makes it to "news" is just bad news. If there are 99 things happening good with the bureaucracy, media will find that 1 remaining instance. Who cares about the good stuff young bureaucrats are doing (not that they are not supposed to).
There is a lot more grey in bureaucracy than Law firms. While superceding/out of turn promotion is seen as a definite good thing in law firms, such promotions happen in bureaucracy too. But mostly such instances are discarded as favouritism (which is not always true). Also several IRS officers have time and agin been given compulsory retirement for incompetence. Just google them. The examples abound. Recently Hardik Shah (IAS 2010) was appointed as Private Secretary to the PM. Surely there must be several bureaucrats senior to him. Stop being a frog in the well.
Babbar 5 Aug 2020, 10:12
+6 -5
Your examples are mostly wrong. Appointment as personal secretary is not a promotion, its a posting. Hardik will not get promoted to the next higher rank any faster than his mediocre batchmates. Close to 95% of each batch gets promotions in exactly the same time barring few months difference because of different states. You can easily check this by going to persmin.in and checking the record of IAS officers of any particular batch. The IRS retirees are officers embroiled in serious misconduct and other charges. That they made it to 55 is itself astonishing. The main problem with these services (apart from not having any spine) is that there is no incentive to perform better and there is no consequence to performing badly. A guy sitting on his ass all day in AMSS would be asked to leave period, not get promotion to partner along with the best performer in his batch. The only time anyone supersedes others in the IAS/IPS is when it comes to appointments to chief secretary / cabinet secretary / DGP of a state, even those are political decisions and not reflection of ability, and only occur in the last 3-4 years of a career .
Babbar2 5 Aug 2020, 12:12
+2 -1
AMSS? Wots dat?
BabbarSher 5 Aug 2020, 01:31
+3 -1
Any idea where are NLUD peeps this time. Someone must be under 100.
John Doe 5 Aug 2020, 05:47
+4 -1
Kanchan - AIR 35 (NLUD 2018)
Saloni Jain - AIR 253 (NLUD ‘16)
Aged 4 Aug 2020, 13:31
+5 -2
Not that young also :p
Looser 4 Aug 2020, 11:12
+10 -1
Here we go again...
I love complaining 4 Aug 2020, 11:50
+110 -3
If you join a law firm, you're wasting your talent. If you join the civil services, you're licking boots. If you teach in foreign universities, you're draining the country of brains.

Basically, if you're from NLS then we just love complaining about you.
Soz 9 Aug 2020, 04:19
+2 -1
they hate us cause they ain't us
Rubbish 4 Aug 2020, 13:25
+8 -3
Lawfirm means [...] Someone rightly said. [...]

Civil service is the dream job anyone can ever have.
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 15:19
+3 -14
Never had such dreams. Speak for yourself. Can't kowtow to people who are illiterate and corrupt and still in positions of power because of the wonders of democracy.
Hypocrisy 4 Aug 2020, 16:42
+22 -2
Well I guess it's okay to kowtow and grind your ass for people and corporates that fund these illiterate and corrupt people ! Make the rich richer :D in the civil services at least there is scope to do good
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 18:37
+5 -0
There is scope to do good in every profession if one wants to. Sadly, very few people actually end up doing any, be it in law firms or the Civil Services.
Yo them grapes 9 Aug 2020, 04:18
+0 -0
wow those grapes are sour..
NLS202x 4 Aug 2020, 11:07
+12 -12
Extremely hardworking and brilliant guy who always took out the time to help his juniors. Well deserved success BOSS!
ShrutY 4 Aug 2020, 17:27
+4 -0
Agreee
KidGyan 4 Aug 2020, 11:12
+10 -2
Jeydev is a quizzer not a debater dude.
True 4 Aug 2020, 11:45
+7 -3
He has also won Tata Crucible by the way.
Verytrue 4 Aug 2020, 12:08
+9 -1
Yeah, South India rounds
Haha 4 Aug 2020, 12:28
+6 -0
Lol! Fact checked!
Opinion 4 Aug 2020, 13:32
+7 -0
To some, he may be a debater. It's a perspective issue, you see.
Well 4 Aug 2020, 16:40
+4 -3
Seems quite debate-y to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7rWGdUuSuw
Agreed 4 Aug 2020, 17:26
+9 -1
Yes. The Student Bar Debate at NLSIU is a stand out event that sees participation from stalwarts that the debating community holds in high regard.
Well 4 Aug 2020, 18:51
+3 -4
WUDC top Indian team, or is that not held in high regard by the debating community either? This chap in his first year, used to team with Vipul Nanda. Or is Vipul Nanda not held in high regard by the debating community?
Hurt 5 Aug 2020, 04:45
+3 -0
Awww...fan girl / boy spotted.
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 05:08
+9 -0
Debating community: Sounds like a secret society. People have such high opinion about their own worth and achievements!
Yeah? 5 Aug 2020, 14:54
+3 -0
I didn't know he was part of a top Indian team at WUDC.
BSmax 5 Aug 2020, 12:16
+0 -0
Modiji introducing lateral entry. Give some rest to your fiery ass babber.
BSmax 5 Aug 2020, 12:17
+6 -0
Dude SBD is more like ripoff of Oxford Union. It's not meant to be a debating "competition".
fanboy 5 Aug 2020, 14:20
+1 -2
Is WUDC not a competition?
Kiddo 4 Aug 2020, 17:27
+3 -2
You haven't seen him quizzing.
Achchha 5 Aug 2020, 14:54
+3 -0
Thank God
Fanboy 4 Aug 2020, 11:12
+26 -7
Very well deserved. I know Jeydev personally and he's spent a larger part of the past 2 years tirelessly preparing for this exam. He'd be glued to the books even over the course of his 5th year when the rest of his batch were partying and enjoying their last year of college. Even after graduating it was hard to get a hold of him on Whatsapp or the phone for even 5 mins because he was constantly studying. The steel frame will only benefit from this addition - there's no one better to uphold our constitutional values and help build a New India.
Jey Ami 4 Aug 2020, 11:26
+26 -2
You got seenzoned by Jeydev :P
HLFSociety 4 Aug 2020, 12:56
Troll
+33 -2
Must be particularly insufferable to be ignored on WhatsApp by Jeydev.
GuruRR 4 Aug 2020, 11:25
+11 -2
Well done Jeydev.. It is a testament to his determination and focus towards a life in public service...Too many students these days go to law colleges with goals of writing civil services but when the Law Firm Truck comes with bags of money for the herds.... they are quick to climb on and be driven blindly to their sweatshops where they will spend their days trying to increase the profits of CEOs and executives....!! It good to see such bright young students wanting to positively contribute to our society by looking beyond the self....serving others is serving God....
God Bless and remember....with great power comes great responsibility..!!
Henry Tinda 4 Aug 2020, 19:03
+5 -2
Is there something wrong with helping an executive/CEO to increase profits?
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 05:10
+2 -0
Only to sour grapes.
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 11:43
+6 -1
Suruchi Singh Batch of 2015
Insider 7 Aug 2020, 01:14
+0 -0
Rank 432: Suruchi Singh (NLS, 2015)
UPSC 4 Aug 2020, 12:29
+5 -6
Hey Kian, why didn't yoy include all india rankers from other law universities in this article? Did you not include them because they were not from NLS/NALSAR/NUJS/NLUD?
Kiddo 4 Aug 2020, 12:40
+12 -3
Kian gets info on AIRs from law school community of LI. Most of the people lurking in comments are from NLUs. That's probably why their rankers are listed out first. KG is not superman dude.
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 13:03
+4 -0
Manan Mishra may consider him a Super-Kiang though. (Check previous articles to find out what a kiang is). Might have some distant relationship with Krypto.
karvy 19 Aug 2020, 07:26
+0 -0
There are very negligible or minimal Students from any other NLU or Law Optional in UPSC. So they don't come in lime light. That's why it was asked to others to add this list.
UPSC is not a single shot. It's practice and practice and practice, which lead to success. And that's why people even leave after an attempt and go for Judicial Services.
Guest 19 Aug 2020, 08:50
+0 -0
Even here it is being said that only 1 or 2 students from these NLUs have made it. How less negligible or minimal can the numbers be from other NLUs?
Factchecks! 4 Aug 2020, 13:30
+7 -0
Kya yaar! They won the India National Rounds of the moot. See: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lawctopus.com/nlsiu-wins-15th-henry-dunant-moot-by-defeating-nlud/amp/

Deliberate miss? :(((
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 14:26
+3 -0
NLSIU seat matrix revised LOL
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 14:27
+3 -0
NLSIU seat matrix revised https://news.careers360.com/nlsiu-bangalore-revises-seat-matrix-for-ba-llb-and-llm-programmes
Lobby 4 Aug 2020, 21:17
+0 -0
NLSIU lobby hoping this news gets buried in the UPSC coverage.
Office mein baap kaun 4 Aug 2020, 14:28
+12 -4
Law School delivers. Highest ever UPSC rank if I'm not wrong. Improves on Geetanjali and Sakshi (NLS and NALSAR, both rank 6).
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 15:03
+7 -1
Kindly update on their optionals too. Whether they took law as optional?
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 16:13
+16 -11
Instead of chasing law firm jobs, NLSIU students are today more interested in careers that make an actual difference: UPSC, think tanks, academics, activism, entrepreneurship and court litigation. Same for NALSAR and NLUD. The slave labour factories are now NUJS, NLUJ, GNLU etc.
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 18:34
+11 -3
Is there any stats that you have that backs your claim apart from 2 UPSC ranks from alumni of a law school in a given year? Please try to get that before making claims. Why don't you check the top think tanks of the country for example and find out how many NLUD grads and how many NUJS grads are working there at present. Or for that matter how many people from NLSIU and NALSAR still sit for day zero every year to be 'corporate slaves'. Or how many successful entrepreneurs each NLU has produced till date. Stop blowing hot air and deal with solid facts. If you don't have the stats, then quit making unsubstantiated claims.
Bill Carson 4 Aug 2020, 18:49
+2 -1
True, starting a business (particularly lowly business of law firm) has never made a difference. So what if it employs people, capisce?
Henry Tinda 4 Aug 2020, 19:00
+9 -4
Don't be obtuse about this. There are plenty of people who cannot afford to take the risk of preparing for UPSC and need jobs, may be because their parent/s have retired from service. In fact, if the sole aim of getting into law school is preparation for UPSC, how do you justify the fees in National Law Schools? You would be better off preparing while doing a graduation course in a college that requires lesser fees to be paid if the idea is not to practice law in the first place. The job of NLS or any other law school is to prepare better lawyers not UPSC aspirants.
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 19:08
+11 -0
There are more students from the 'factories' you named doing litigation, academics, think tank work, entrepreneurship and activism than from NLUD. For any given batch. Check the bar association rolls, think tank websites and university rosters. UPSC and Delhi Judiciary cracking are the only two grad outcomes where NLUD would be ahead of the others. Similarly, the entrepreneurs from places like NUJS would outrank those from other NLUs. Think tanks like Vidhi, PRS, NIPFP etc. also employ many students from these 'factories'. Fact checking is too much of expectation from trolls I guess. The comments section regularly features people like you who randomly accord some vague achievements to NLUs. Starting with NLSIU and then tagging NALSAR and NLUD as an afterthought. Without any study, data, pretty much nothing in support. I wonder which law school you have graduated from to have such research skill or lack thereof.
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 18:39
+9 -0
Lol, what? I personally know at least 15 alumni who are part of the Civil Services today, from just one of the NLUs you foolishly referred to as factories. Doubtless there are many others from that place, as well as the other ones. Just because you are ignorant about the real world doesn't mean that things don't happen out there.
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 16:16
+7 -3
If we do a comparison of which NLU has been the most successful in cracking UPSC in the past 10 years, the top would be NLUD>NLSIU>NALSAR.
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 18:59
+12 -2
Didn't know NLUs crack UPSC these days. Or provide coaching for it. Apart from campus placement and recruitment and possibly to a certain extent higher studies, the other achievements of students like UPSC don't have anything to do with the NLU at all. It's sheer personal hard work.
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 16:16
+5 -2
Possibly the highest ever rank achieved by a law grad?
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 19:05
+6 -0
From NLUs yes as had been rightly pointed above (previous high was 6). However, there have been a few students of law who have achieved no. 1 over the years. This was more so in the years immediately after independence.
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 19:12
+5 -0
Nope. The year Sakshi got rank 6, there was a guy from Punjab University who got rank 2 with Law as his optional. You can search his name on LI in the archives. That is the highest rank by a law grad in the recent past.
NUJS IRS 2014 5 Aug 2020, 04:24
+11 -0
There was this girl with law background, who was Rank 1. She hailed from some non-nlu state university. Factoring NLUs as a reason for success is rubbish. It's sheer hardwork (and a lot of luck). Have seen many bright and very hardworking young men and women not able to pass this exam. So, you gotta give luck it's due.
BabbarSher 5 Aug 2020, 06:09
+3 -0
She was 2010 or 2011 topper. A year after Shah Faesal.
NUALS ROXXX 4 Aug 2020, 17:33
+9 -4
Proud. NUALS wants some credit as a stepping stone!
Heyyyy now 4 Aug 2020, 19:26
+8 -0
Low blow dude. Low blow.
Guest 4 Aug 2020, 18:53
Troll
+16 -2
Kian is an out of touch boomer. He thinks law firm jobs is what Gen Z law grads want. Sorely mistaken. High time to shift coverage to the non-law firm world -- cover developments in UPSC, litigation, NGOs, academics etc.
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 16:34
+4 -0
LOL, Kian downgraded a comment calling him a boomer but others are upvoting it!
kianganz 5 Aug 2020, 16:48
+5 -2
Haha, trollish mission clearly accomplished then :)
poor reporting 5 Aug 2020, 02:53
+5 -0
Kian, expect a better wholistic reporting from you. At the very least, take his comment. If you can do so for any exit from some ABC law firm (which is a routinely affair), then this event really deserves a better story.
Mr. X 5 Aug 2020, 05:41
+9 -0
Akarshi Jain, AIR 140 (NLU Jodhpur, Batch of 2016).
Kanchan NLUD 5 Aug 2020, 05:45
+7 -0
Kanchan rank 35 is from NLUD. Check the uni FB page.
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 07:28
+4 -0
I have got a genuine question that I would love to get an answer for from anybody who is in the know. How do universities keep track of their alumni who are securing these ranks in such exams? It is unlikely that the students would keep the universities informed about their career path after graduation. So if I see a name similar to alumnus X in the merit list, how do I figure out whether it's my alumnus or someone else? Short of actually tracking X down and seeking confirmation, that is. Unofficial info from alumni who know?
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 07:05
+3 -0
Suruchi Singh 432 [NLSIU Batch of 2015]
University 5 Aug 2020, 07:16
+9 -0
Legally India is perhaps the only magazine in the world that is run on information based in the comments section. Good work Kian, your journalism will be a shining example to many.
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 08:27
+3 -1
Even when the comments section is so often full of hate.
Guest X 5 Aug 2020, 07:47
+2 -4
I disagree with all these uninformed (and probably jealous) commentators who are coolly saying that clearing UPSC has no link to the college in which one has studied and that therefore, it is not a reflection of the quality of an institution. Ask any of these toppers about the important role that their undergraduate legal education has played in laying the foundation for their success in the CSE, and I assure you that not a single one of them will deny it.

Especially for students in the law optional, which probably has the most enormous and substantial syllabus amongst all the optionals, the conceptual clarity about various kinds of laws can only come over time and that too with good faculty and a good peer group. This is something that is quite common to the top 4-5 law schools which have regularly produced UPSC toppers from almost every batch (atleast the student quality, by and large). While it finally comes down to the amount of effort and time that the individual puts into his/her prep, the basis for the direction of such effort comes from the experiences that the person has had over 5 years during and after graduation. You don't see the mid-tier NLUs producing UPSC toppers on a regular basis, do you?

Simply culling out one or two people every 3-4 years from local state universities that clear the exam with the law optional to say that the law school doesn't matter is quite a lousy analogy. The numbers do not even compare to the continuous results from the top NLUs. With that logic, I remember that a Rhodes scholar from not so long ago did his law from Nagpur University. Does that mean that Nagpur University's law department is on the same scale as NLS or any of the other NLUs which have produced international scholars on a regular basis? Cut the crap, please.
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 08:29
+5 -1
Actually, your analogy and example don't work. For it to work, you will have to have data from any given batch of UPSC about how many people are law grads and how many come from NLUs and non-NLUs. There is absolutely no data to say NLUs are producing more civil service personnel compared to traditional or private law colleges in this country.
Guest X 5 Aug 2020, 09:06
+0 -3
Exactly what data do you want? You want the government to undertake a survey on this and only then it will satisfy you? Check the records over the past 10 years from various news sources and I'm guaranteeing that your impression will be the same as mine. Most of the law toppers are from the top 4-5 NLUs. Maybe not by any overwhelming number but by a substantial one. Every year, we have enough news articles on this website and others on the top rankers and their respective alma maters.
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 09:53
+2 -0
No, there isn't 'enough' sources as you claim. Kian himself gets his info about this only if someone points an alumnus out to him. There is no reason to believe others have any more consistent or reliable source of info either. LI reader group consists of mostly NLU people. Hence the people being pointed out would also be from NLUs predominantly. Unlike some NLUs, TLCs don't declare this on their websites either. In any given year, hardly 10-12 people are named from NLUs. The actual number even from NLUs is likely to be much higher.
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 12:01
+1 -1
why would you specifically say rank 51 is not from NLIU?
Alias 5 Aug 2020, 13:58
+2 -0
Because they mixed it up the first time.
Guest 6 Aug 2020, 05:30
+7 -0
Utkarsh Singh, Rank 243, RGNUL Patiala, (Batch of 2019)
Ram Jakar rank, 605, RGNUL Patiala, (Batch of 2016)
Guest 6 Aug 2020, 08:51
+1 -7
Which NLU has produced the most IAS/IPS/IFS in recent years? Answer:

1. NLSIU
2. NLUD
3. NALSAR
4. NUJS
5. GNLU
6. NLUJ
7. RGNUL
8. RMLNLU
9. NUALS
10. NLIU
Guest 6 Aug 2020, 09:59
+3 -0
Which credible source or stats or methodology is this list based on?
The answer is:

None at all.
Messiah 6 Aug 2020, 10:34
+4 -0
Seems like NLSIU pr machinery has already commenced ops.
https://www.nls.ac.in/news-events/nlsiu-grad-aces-civil-services-exams/
Guest 6 Aug 2020, 11:52
+3 -3
A top 10 rank is a big deal. At least this is well deserved PR.
Internal 7 Aug 2020, 02:38
+5 -0
In a meeting with one of the batches in law school, responding to a request for lesser course load in fifth year/more flexibility for people prepping for civils, Sudhir said it's not the job of law school to make Civil Servants. But eveything is fair when it comes to PR I guess.
Guest 7 Aug 2020, 05:43
+1 -0
As another well known academic and Law School alumnus and a dear friend used to say jokingly, PR kiya toh darna kya!
Where’s the lie? 8 Aug 2020, 03:30
+0 -1
He’s not wrong right? and J didn’t need all of those relaxations in academic standards to make it - why would you?
No Fall in Standards 8 Aug 2020, 10:46
+0 -0
That's true. People shouldn't forget that J was a 6-pointer, though that batch had quite a few of them.
Guest 2020 7 Aug 2020, 05:02
+3 -7
When will NUJS boast of such achievements. Most of the students go for corporate law firms. An extremely sad trend.....
Guest 7 Aug 2020, 05:41
+7 -2
Not more than 50% of any NUJS batch sit for Day Zero. The remaining have been opting for alternate careers for the last decade including litigation, higher studies, NGO and policy level work, entrepreneurship, judicial clerkship and the like. There are at least 20 alumni in services such as IAS, IFS, IPS, IRS, IAAS etc. All the leading legal think tanks in the country have got NUJS alumni working there. Just because there are not press releases 'boasting' about these, that doesn't mean they aren't happening in the real world.
Guest 8 Aug 2020, 07:26
+1 -4
Sorry, but very few NUJS grads are in careers like civil services, think tanks, academics etc. 90% work as law firm slave labour. NUJS is way behind NLSIU/NALSAR/NLUD on this count.
Guest 8 Aug 2020, 07:58
+3 -0
@29.3.3.1: That's a complete lie and you know it very well. Why don't you actually show stats to prove your point. Go ahead, let's start with NLUD. Can you name or even cite with proper source the number of NLUD grads in academics, think tanks, civil services? Because I can even name the people from NUJS in each of these sectors. It's clear that you are a troll who doesn't really care about accuracy. Just off the top of my head, almost 10% of Vidhi's research fellows come from NUJS. At least 30 alumni are teaching in various law universities in India, and 6 abroad that I know of. As has been stated above, at least 20 alumni are currently in the civil services. Almost 200 alumni are currently litigating all across India, and several abroad. Check the roster of JCs in Supreme Court for even last year and you'll find NUJS alumni there too. At least 40 people are working with various NGOs on multiple levels. At least ten-twelve professionally successful entrepreneurs are there in the alumni rank. And at least 100% of you is full of s**t, because you can't even cite these numbers for any of the other NLUs. So be a good little troll and go away. It seems like you have not succeeded in any profession including law firms and suffer from a case of sour grapes.
Guest 8 Aug 2020, 08:26
+3 -0
29.3.3.1: Sorry, but you have got no idea where NUJS grads are or are not. Which is why you come up with such laughable conclusions.
Alias 7 Aug 2020, 15:32
+0 -0
It's also funny how they haven't even bothered to mention their other rank-holders.
Messiah 13 Oct 2020, 14:48
+0 -0
Seems to have migrated to a new link: https://www.nls.ac.in/news-events/nlsiu-grad-aces-civil-services-exam/
Ragnool 6 Aug 2020, 13:20
+2 -0
Rank 605 - RAM CHANDRA JAKHAR - RGNUL - Batch of 2016
Rank 335 - NLIU Bhopal 7 Aug 2020, 20:43
+2 -0
Hi Kian, please update this - Ananya Awasthi (Batch of 2017) secured 335 rank in UPSC.
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6696750997412352000/
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