you fools, you should instead be protesting in front of moily's office demanding foreign law firms. there is a man-made job shortage in the legal sector because liberalisation is being blocked.

why doesnt CNLU contact nalsar rcc. they will make up and fabricate recruitment figures and even if people dont have jobs atleast they will be able to pretend..

this is the problem the mushrooming of national law schools, the state governments create these without contemplating the future of its students..and the statement of the V.C is hilarious, "we want them to be good LAWYERS first", and how do you expect them to be good lawyers? by struggling to eat and remaining unemployed? the v.c should stop taking his salary, fight to eat, and give a cause to the students to comment, "we want him to be a food administrator first."

Hunger strike is not at all a good solution !

Try to contact recruiters on ur level if univ fails. Dn't harm ur university reputation.

It is gross mismanagement of the University since its inception. It makes it obvious how important it is to entrust the Newly Established Universities into the hands of good administrators. Scholarship is one thing, administration is another thing. Organizing the Institution in a progressive manner requires a man of vision and skilled administrator alongside an established scholar. If the Vice Chancellor was unable to function with full autonomy and give a good take-off to the University because of political and judicial interventions, he should have immediately resigend from his job than to spoil the career of so many students. It is a [...] on the part of the Vice Chancellor to have done so.
It is better that the reins of the University be entrusted to some young and energetic vice chanellor as well as Registrar. Sooner the better, to avoid further damage to the next batches of the University. It is high time that the vice chancellor as well as Registrar be given an unceremonious exit and be given a [...].
Chief Minister should personally involve himself and give a good rethinking to the whole affairs. Precious resources of the poor people are involved into it, and the same should not be allowed to be looted like this. Why students should be made to be at the receiving end. A strong facelift is the need of the hour at CNLU, which shall be a strong challenging job for the new incumbent. Let there be a fact-finding committee of parents and civil society and the responsible people must be brought to book.
Students are requested to do something concrete and take the protest to its logical end so that no more of their fellow students should suffer in future.

Sad.

It's all the result of too many law schools too suddenly.


As for foreign law firms,
It's not a be all end all.

After the initial hiring spree, maybe lack of jobs might return.
Speaking in absolutes is generally not a great idea.

You CNLU Idiots... honestly hit the road!! Protesting in college will not serve any purpose...

agree with #3, but the problem is that the indian economy is also not reforming fast enough to absorb all the MBAs and law grads. Remember that the NLUs were set up on the premise that india will have double-digit growth for the next 40 years and become the third-largest economy in the world in 2050. unfortunately, the economy has stalled under the UPA. whatever growth there has been has been jobless growth. the government urgently needs to carry out the second wave of economic reforms.

Sad.

It's all the result of too many law schools too suddenly.


As for foreign law firms,
It's not a be all end all.

After the initial hiring spree, maybe lack of jobs might return.
Speaking in absolutes is generally not a great idea.

Another point is that if foreign universities are allowed in such problems will not occur. Foreign universities will not be bound by political obligations and will appoint good administrators. they are also likely to offer better education and training. Just look at all the NLU heads: most of them are idiots who got the post through political connections. Not just CNLU but all NLUs are badly managed.

hard evidence on the explosion of law colleges in past decade - http://theunwillinglawyer.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html

the V.C. is busy doing other things than worry for our placements....!!! why does the university even take admissions? they just ruined our lives

#4 #7 #1 people ur not abhle to appreciate whats going on in cnlu things are really hard lack of faculty limited or should i say no job prospect at all and if these were not enough vc who is doin nothing at all and yes do i mentioned that the tenure of vc is increased for 5 more yrs which means not only the 5th batch but also the present 1st batch will be getting nothing in return after spending lakhs of mullahs and obviously 5 most precious yrs.. things are really difficult to handle depression is at pick.. cnlu campus dogs are better than the students here atleat they dont have to struggle for placements and teachers..

Just to set a few record straight..A few things in this article are completely off the mark...The VC was never held hostage by the students..Infact, since this outrage has broken,he has come out in the open only once! The college office was locked for 2 days by the students in order to ensure that the VC comes out and talks to them...which when he did, the office was opened.
The students are currently on a hunger strike that has entered its 3rd day..and they still are appearing in there mid semester examinations that are currently underway. Still there has been no word from the college administration or the political junta of Bihar to the students call.
Also,its important to tell people here that CNLU is not "just another NLU" on the map..It has won many accolades and its students have won a lot of prestigious competitions..without any help from the college administration and a rather ordinary faculty. Definitely, they deserved better than this.

If mismanagement is the issue ILS law college undoubtedly tops the chart.
Unfortunately the college is run by a trust and students cant even appraoch the govt as CNLU students did.
And pune univ which is the only authority that can do something strangely does nothing.

Hope someday ILS students also get the guts to do something loke this!

It is sad that students are demanding universities to place them with firms and companies. Universities are not meant to be placement agents. They are meant to impart quality education. I can appreciate if sutdents go on hunger strike because of lack of good faculty, or library or other infrastructure facilities. But running a placement agency cannot be a University's mandate. Universities are temples of knowledge, not placement agents.

@16- Keep that temples of knowledge crap to yourself, these students are not being imparted education for free. They pay quite a hefty fee for this, some even take educational loans to pay for their education, don't they need to pay that off or the banks in India have become the new Warren Buffets of the world. Yes, the colleges are not supposed to place the students, but assist students to get placed and not lie to the bloody CM about it. I am sure if the VC has been lying about this to the CM. Mr. Nitish Kumar will look into it.

@#16..you seem to be a middle aged bengali babu, engulfing yourself with the 19th century archaic, typical pseudo intellectual, blah blah bullshit mentality! ever heard of a term comprising of two words named 'industry reputation'? it exists because of the marketability of the students. why do people prefer studying in the top educational institutions in the first place? so that they may employ the knowledge acquired in having a decent life. what will you do with so much of knowledge if you have nowhere to use it (cause you are unemployed)? i guess you should lock yourself up in an almirah with a book for the rest of your life and gain knowledge! as for the rest of us, let us carry on with our lives in the materialistic world and try to get jobs.

I second the opinion of 16. No body can "demand" Placements from college.
You have every right to go on strike for facilities or mismanagement but not for placements.

I tend to make no remarks on the capacities and capabilities of VC. He may be a bad administrator for all reasons but going on hunger strike for placements seems, for lack of better word, childish.

#10: Also,its important to tell people here that CNLU is not "just another NLU" on the map..It has won many accolades and its students have won a lot of prestigious competitions..without any help from the college administration and a rather ordinary faculty. Definitely, they deserved better than this.

#15: If mismanagement is the issue ILS law college undoubtedly tops the chart.

Such complaints are true for all NLUs. just that students from NLSIU/NALSAR/NUJS etc hide all these dirty secrets from the public.

minor complaints about college admin is different from gross mismanagement by college authorities.
CNLU and ILS are places where there is gross mismanagement.

This is gruesome, Why am I writing CLAT, if I know my degree would be worth peanuts after 5 years ? Do I need to look at someplace else ? This article has certainly prompted me to.

#16
it is quite comfortable to sit in a distant location and speak ideal like you are doing.
your opinion is based on that Telegraph report which has not unraveled the whole truth.
placement is not the sole issue of this hunger strike, though i find no problems in that as well in a job oriented university.
all these years the CNLU students have made lot of hue and cry about the non eligible faculty and extremely poor infrastructure that includes library and books as well.
our voices have crumbled, and no heed was ever paid. all the remedies for reform have already been exhausted. we were compelled to adjust with all of this. we have suffered a lot of difficulties with just one hope that probably at last we will get placed, now which has become a distant reality. CNLU has seen many previous protests which were not for placements at all. i just fail to understand how do you justify situation of a loan burdened student? how you expect him not to worry about a job for his living but to crave for quality legal education and that too in last 20 days of the college left. the college has failed to provide quality legal education in last 5 years. isn't that just enough!

it is high time to expose the reality of the so called brand "NLUs", which is yet another key objective of this hunger strike.

and to all those who think we should hit the road now, i assure them it is the next step in the row.

"Students were protesting outside the college and blocking the main gate..According to the paper the vice chancellor A Lakshminath could not leave the complex until they called the police."....Nothing of the sort happened.

Status Report: CNLU and many lower rung NLUs in India

a) Stupid Dean/VC like [...]. While all can't have an MP Singh, Ranbir Singh is still better than [...].

b) Poor faculty.

c) Poor infrastructure.

d) Above all, stupid students. Guys at CNLU, if you want to get jobs,you have to work hard for it. CNLU can't help your cause.

@ #25: Dude! Thanku so much for providing an assesment of the status of NLU's in India. But, guess this classification of "stupid students" just lets us know how exactly intelligent you are. Blame the students for not getting placed? Yea..why not! It was there mistake to believe in the brand name of an NLU and a VC who promised a safe and stable future to them and take admission here. It was really stupid to take admission in a place whose CM is being showered with accolades for transforming a state that was in no-man's land not too long ago, based on his promise that he will guarantee a future. And, it was extremely stupid to pay lakhs as fees to the University and then expect that they will ensure placements! Oh yes , Its all the more stupid to protest and raise your voice against a corrupt management when you have been stripped of your reasonable rights, when all one should do is wait for another 5-6 years and hope that things will fall in place one day! Yeah, tells us how clever you are, no matter which NLU ("lower rung" or not) you belong to!

What has the student placement cell been doing all the while? Isn't placements run by students themselves? You could try doing that - like, contacting a few mid-level firms. Surely there is no dearth of talent in CNLU - only that it's waiting to be untapped.