More than 800 GNLU Gandhinagar students are moving onto a new 50 acre campus, which once swimming pools and sporting facilities are finished next year will have cost up to Rs 150 crore.
GNLU vice chancellor Professor Bimal Patel said: “It is monumental. It will almost be your second home.
“In terms of facility, environment and ecological care we have taken, I have seen a lot of campuses in the world but this is something that is a statement.”
Patel said that all 800 LLB students, around 24 LLM students and 30 PhD students had already moved to the new campus, which would be fully completed with a swimming pool and more sporting facilities in one-and-a-half years.
The academic block, library, computing facilities and conference halls are also complete but the 41 full-time faculty and 50 administrative staff would only move into the new campus in future.
Patel told Legally India that the total budget for the campus was planned to be capped at Rs 150 crore, all of which was provided by the Gujarat state government. In addition the University Grants Commission (UGC) provided Rs 5 crore and the Gujarat government granted 50 acres worth of land in what is “one of the most pricey areas of Gandhinagar” in the “Knowledge Corridor” alongside other institutes, said Patel.
Gujarat governor Shrimati Kamla and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi are chief guests at the inauguration of the new campus this Saturday (7 January), alongside India’s vice president Hamid Ansari, Supreme Court judge Justice and GNLU visitor Anil Dave, and Gujurat law minister Dileep Sanghani.
National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) Ranchi in Jharkhand has been allotted 100 acres of land, Legally India reported in June. [[HNLU Raipur]] has a new campus of around 60 acres.
Correction: The originally published article misstated the campus’ budget, which is in fact Rs 155 crore excluding the land that was provided by the government.
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From now on, think twice before calling us sub-standard and below average in competition to any other law schools.
what is the point of such a huge campus? are we doing law or athletics? :P
Whatever, We are enjoying the moment. Have waited for this day for long time and it feels good even if we are not in college anymore.
It seems from your posts that you are very high up in energy and you like to fight with people. Moreover even in this post you have lowered yourself and presented a sense of anguish. You yourself have said that your school is substandard.Your comment was the first one , when no one had said anything, Who says GNLU is substandard? Bring out and we will question him right at hand. I donot think so, neither I believe so, had your law school been substandard, your people wouldnot have been working in First tier lawfirms and corporates. Please choose your words.
I really appreciate the criticism on my post and the points you have made out of them. I am thankful to you for them. I have observed your comments and they seem to be fiery instead and would sentence a blooming friendship to death,which I would have offered you. Your comment says, stop writing untill you write it perfect, but friend, I am not a seasoned writer, I am just trying to develop my writing skills. I can completely agree to your comment saying that you didnot understand the post, exactly it is not to be understood, it is to be felt within and that is why the most submissive heading under which I could submit my post was " STUDENT LIFE". Can the things as to life be so easily understood, when we have not understood life or much of it. We are still trying to understand life. I had already made clear that nothing was unusual as to the incident. This line is straight and pretty clear in my post, seems you thought this would be a masala post, but nothing ending up spicy, you left it. It was a way of looking at things. It was a way of me putting up something, so simple, but yet so unnoticed. I am not a seasoned writer, I am still trying to pick up skills. I am open to criticism, but a comment like yours offends me. This post is not a research paper with an idea underneath, it is not an abstract. Some one is sensitive, he or she can understand it, that is fine, someone doesnot that is also fine. I will try to see what alterations I make make to bring up things more humorous.
And ya, the major part of what you said was out of the frustration of what I commented on your blog post. Look, I said what I felt, how I felt. There is no need to take it on heart and took it out here and THEN blaming me of "picking up fights". I'm not owner or moderator of LI. Write any blog posts you want, I have better things to do in life then reading them. While surfing LI, I stumbled on yours and found the title "interesting" not "masala" so gave it a read and said what I felt. I'm not scared to say what I think about something.
So, just let it be. If I affected your sentiments or was insensitive by being critical in my comments, then PEACE OUT. I will ignore them completely from now on.
Chill Dude, keep writing, don't let anyone affect that. Take up criticism rather than false appreciation. Free Advice hai, I won't charge any fee for it.
And Dude, my comment was a constructive one, it led you to write a whole blog, however hard you criticise me and my blog.
I must say you have vented out more frustration than me in the post. Its hidden by the words that you have used. Anyway, I liked your post titled" I want a bigger campus" and I am pretty happy that you have included the AMSS thing in it, which I had pointed out ,a nice squat, go on writing, the show must go on. As to false appreciation, I am open to face clear cut criticism than concealed and unconstructive criticism in the form of a false appreciation. But, dude, if things are at rest, let us not make them like a pendulum. Happy Blogging.
Moving to my college, even after getting an option of the top a rank near the mid-100's now seems like not that good an idea.
And,more importantly, part of the 3rd graduating batch that GNLU has produced....
GNLU. FINALLY. RESPECT!! :-D.
And,more importantly, part of the 3rd graduating batch that GNLU has produced....
GNLU. FINALLY. RESPECT!! :-D.[/quote]
Oh sure it will!!and you know what GNLU will someday also get smart students and someday those smart students will get jobs to go home with.
Long live the flame of GNLU...
Oh sure it will!!and you know what GNLU will someday also get smart students and someday those smart students will get jobs to go home with.
Long live the flame of GNLU...
Oh sure it will!!and you know what GNLU will someday also get smart students and someday those smart students will get jobs to go home with.
Long live the flame of GNLU...[/quote]
Yaar, don't say anything about smartness of students. They are smart enough to beat the competition and get admission in one of the National Law Schools. Also, check the figures, last year we got the highest no. of placements.
And moreover, time will answer to all the questions and apprehensions. So lets see.
Yeah totally. First surpass NLU J
Guys, pester the director and get good profs
Vinay, is that you?
Vinay, is that you?[/quote]
@ someone who said one day GNLU will beat Nalsar (being hopefully and a little foolish)....and someone who was cocky and said in so many words that it may never happen....tough i would to love to see GNLU there...coz Nalsar is definitely a damn good college....but I think the cocky guy is true...its really tough to beat a college with such well placed alumini strength...+ look at this also...Can any Nalsar or NUJS beat NLS in the market? (they will say yesss...but everyone knows the answer) No. So by this sheer logic it will be difficult for us to beat them...but ya we can be as good as them or strive or hope to be.....
@cocky guy...i guess u dint get the innocence and hope in the 'foolish and stupid guy' wanting to see his college do get....its pointless being so cocky....ur college is good (needs no one's assertion or no one's dissent can take it away) and ours can be good too (already enroute)....Peace i guess
A lot of people might say a lot of things. It's good that such a campus is coming up and efforts are being made. Perhaps once it's up the focus shall shift towards lifting the quality and standard of faculty as well as streamlining various processes such as internship applications etc.
Hopefully the campus will prove to be a shot in the arm for a University that has been pretty much knocking on the doors of a lot of places including law firms, foreign universities among others.
The land could have been used to set up a technical or medical university - with at least 25,000 students on campus.
Otherwise it is a criminal waste of resources.
[quote name="Land grabber"]50 acres! For about 900 students. And that too for teaching of law - hardly a national priority.
The land could have been used to set up a technical or medical university - with at least 25,000 students on campus.
Otherwise it is a criminal waste of resources.[/quote]
Congrats to GNLU on new campus.