Do you have any stats to substantiate your argument that the demand for NLUs is only 20% of the total student population of India? Also if you weren't arguing for a Hindi based curriculum in NLUs exactly what is your point in asking for CLAT to be in Indian vernacular languages? Entrance tests are exams that test your competency in a subject (one of them being English), whose main end goal is to decide if you're fit for an institute or not. Will a Hindi speaking person not proficient at English be able to cope in an English medium college such as NLSIU? Let me answer that for you-no. So why would the consortium conducting the exam think that a person not proficient in the language be fit for an institute such as theirs? It isn't the responsibility of NLUs to ensure language parity either. It is merely their job to provide quality legal education, and a students prowess, or rather the lack thereof of the common medium of instruction through which the entire syllabus discourse takes place, is not their responsibility. It is the Centre's responsibility to do that. NLUs might be nationalised, but they're not a substitute for the Centre. Like you mentioned, people who do make it, struggle throughout, so the question begs- what would happen if the CLAT consortium decided to bring about a change that resulted in a candidate being able to choose the language in which they attempted the exam? Sure, more number of people will attempt, and probably more of those who aren't proficient in the English language will get in, but then what? Is my argument, which is in favour of an alternative that results in only meritorious students getting in as illogical as you make it out to be, or is it yours that assumes that all colleges have a social responsibility to fulfil a task that isn't theirs? While I might even buy into an argument that students coming from BPL families or even those keeping themselves hardly afloat might not have access or the means to learn English, it is highly improbable that a middle class family in todays day and age are subjected to the same circumstances. I will spit your own question back at you- what country do you live in to think otherwise? Is it also so illogical to believe that a highly interested student will find a way on his own to master the language? There is no dearth of English coaching centres or "how to learn" guides, many coming at highly light-on-the-pocket fees due to the sheer ubiquity of such centres. Why then should an aspiring student transfer this burden to the college? Lastly, NLUs are far more than colleges, they're prestigious institutes offering top notch legal education. They have been recognised all over the world as premier institutes, so studying in them naturally gives you international visibility. To be able to bear up with that kind of pressure that requires you to moot on an international level or even national level, requires to have mastered the common language that is English? You have requiters coming from abroad, people constantly sizing you up across the globe. Does that not require you to show some amount of competency in the language? Even if we were to make it mandatory that NLUs provide formal English education to those weak in the language, it can be comfortably assumed that they will still lag far behind those who have mastered it, and it will take them a while before they begin to even comprehend what the heavy tomes of law books have to say with their complicated legal jargon that even a person fluent in the language has a hard time understanding, let alone participate in any exchange (which is essential to the profession) with other students and faculty from the same or different colleges. A continuation of the above point- most graduates get placed in corporates (global or national) and it is no secret that these corporates require you to have a good command of English, especially because you will have to deal with international clients. What will you do at that stage then, assuming that you have passed all the above stages successfully? Surely, your appeal goes down in their eyes? So what is the point of getting a degree then, when you have don't have much value in the job market, which is the end goal of everyone? It is no more the responsibility of the NLUs to ensure accurate, country-wide representation of all language classes than it is of CLAT coaching centres aiding their pupils to crack the exam. You're still conflating the ideas of having fluency in English to privilege and elitism; those days are far bygone. For all you know, these people studied under the public school system and eventually built up on their lexicon with extensive reading or by some other means. I have known such people who hailed from places considered "rural" who have a far better grasp of the language than some people I studied with, because of their sheer will to master it. They could also be products of the RTE system which allows for pupils from backward classes to learn on par with pupils coming from better backgrounds, thus giving access to the same resources. You have assumed a lot in your argument, and yes, this isn't to say that my personal example is applicable to everybody, but let's not generalise and accuse people of "privilege" when it could just as easily be the fault of the student himself. Finally, most of the crowd at NLUs tend to be from middle class background, finesse of English be damned, and that in itself invalidates "elitism" which is only reserved for the few at the top. Most of those who do get in, hailing from the class they do, worked pretty damn hard for it, and did not have things handed to them on a platter, so I honestly don't know where you got that idea from. My question to you is this, and this comes from a genuine, deep curiosity to understand- you believe CLAT approach of progressively increasing difficulty of the paper will have a negative impact on the Hindi speaking belt, why have you not thought that South Indians who might not have exposure to the language as well might be equally affected? If not, doesn't that indicate something wrong with the "Hindi belt" and not the education system as a whole?

I also urge you to read the NLU Jabalpur case where an 18 year old boy was found hanging in his dorm room because he "felt like an outcast due to his lack of proficiency in English". This is despite the fact that he was taking classes to master it. It is in fact on this same website. Tell me would not that boy be alive now if he had never gotten in due to toughened standards. Yes, he might have never been able to pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer, but he would be alive now doing something he despised. This is an attestation to the fact that getting in doesn't always mean you have made it, you will still struggle to continue once you're inside.

@Guest... Please name people who have graduated from private law colleges who are doing as much work as the top 3 NLUs. You will find none. Fact of the matter is our alumni dominate nearly every space, which is indicative of graduate quality.