For those wondering why he was selected...

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I condemn this decision and the interference by the TMC government in the appointment process. Professor Vivekanandan is infinitely more suited to the post. He has been involved with two very reputed institutions in senior positions: at NALSAR, he was head of distance education and MHRD Chair professor. At the IIT Kharagpur IP Law school he was the first Dean. His academic credentials are also far superior: a PhD from NLSIU, international publications of repute, and a high standing int he field of IP law. He has also advised the Indian government in WIPO negotiations (video below).He is also well connected and has established links with top ranked law schools (George Washington while at IIT, Cornell while at Bennett University). Finally, he is articulate and speaks English fluently (I am sorry, but these soft skills matter).

I am very disappointed that the students did not pre-emptively object to the decision, as it was well known that the TMC was pushing for NKC . Knowing Prof Vivekanandan, he will feel insulted and prefer to apply to another NLU instead.


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Congratulations to NUJS and welcome to Tier 2 NLU status.

Friends, I would like to post some reactions on behalf of IIT KGP law school (RGSOIPL) community.

1. Prof VCV was a very friendly and popular Dean, who took many initiatives like curriculum reform and collaboration with GWU law school (which is still going strong). He is fondly remembered. Ours is a small, niche law school for BTech grads. We do not aspire to be like NLUs. He understood our needs very well.

2. The RGSOIPL community was hoping that Prof VCV would head to NUJS, as it would make it easier for him to give guest lectures at KGP. We are thus extremely disappointed that Prof VCV has not been chosen.

3. We are further disappointed at the continued marginalisation of IP scholarship. We fail to understand why VCs of law schools must always be experts in human rights, constitutional law, criminology etc. IP law should be treated as a major branch of law in itself deserving equal respect. We strongly oppose this unofficial caste system.

4. Finally, please note that Prof NKC was not appointed as an "adjunct professor" at RGSOIPL, as no such designation exists. Academicians and practitioners have often visit for guest lectures, including Prof NKC, but this does not amount to a formal designation of adjunct professor.

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While NLSIU gets Sudhir....

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Shame on the SJA. Your inaction has repeatedly led to the college being screwed over and over again. There was a time any years ago when alumni and students had united to sign a petition against PIB. Nowadays the alumni are treated with contempt and mediocracy is supported.

[quote]Sources at Calcutta University said some students of the law department had lodged complaints with senior officials, including controller of examinations Onkar Sadhan Adhikari, stating that the two teachers had forced them to take private tuition for better results?. The students requested Adhikari not to divulge their names.

A three-member committee, comprising Shyamapada Pal, P.N. Ghosh and Shyamal Sarkar, had been formed to probe the charges. The committee submitted its report to the Syndicate on April 19.

Recently, the authorities had chargesheeted the two teachers Nirmal Kanti Chakraborty and S.S. Chatterjee.

"I have not yet received any chargesheet. Naturally, I will not say anything about the so-called charges," Chakraborty told Metro on Tuesday.

Chatterjee, however, claimed that the allegations were false. "I will decide my course of action after I receive the university's letter," he said.[/quote]

https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/private-tuition-slap-for-two-university-teachers/cid/1119477

[quote]The inquiry committee also found that Chakraborty, in securing a job at the university, had given false statements regarding his stint at Hooghly Mohsin College.

A member of the Syndicate said Chakraborty had stated in his application that he had been a full-time teacher at the college. ?But inquiry revealed his statement to be absolutely false. His appointment was ad hoc and he was not a permanent teacher there.?

Chakraborty was appointed in the university?s law department in 1997. Next year, he was promoted to the post of reader and in 2003, he became the head of the department.

The university?s chargesheet against Chakraborty asked him to explain why he had misled the authorities by making false statements regarding his previous employment.

The probe panel also found that one of the two teachers had misappropriated funds sanctioned for a students? excursion. ?The wealth accumulated by one of the two teachers is not proportionate to his income,? the Syndicate member said. ?Naturally, we have reasons to question him on how he had gathered such wealth. We have the right to know his sources of income,? he added.[/quote]

https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/private-tuition-slap-for-two-university-teachers/cid/1119477

I have some questions about this man's CV:

http://iti.beta.kiit.ac.in/profiles/prof-dr-n-k-chakrabarti/

1. He claims to have published 55 articles. Why is not even one listed? How many of these are in peer reviewed journals of repute?

2. What does "research visit" to Max Planck mean? Did he just go to use the library or was he a research fellow?

3. Why are the dates of the Max Planck visit 2017 and 2018 in one place, and 2016 in another?

4. He is bio claims he was a reader at CU, then "adjunct prof" at IIT, then promoted to professor at CU. Can we then assume that "adjunct prof" at IIT is lower than professor rank at IIT and certainly lower than Dean rank, which Vivekanandan held?

The search committee had forwarded the names to the CJI who then sent it back to the EC for discussion. the EC had recommended the three names (NKS, VCV and SDS) in that order. The CJ has has thus approved the selection by the EC. What is the need for another EC meeting to confirm this - except that Taimur wants to squat for some more time and inflict more damage on the institution?? It seems there are more [...] activities that he wants to do and this excuse of another EC is being taken so that he can continue on that chair. we must wake up to this nonsense.

If Vivekanandan ends up as NLUD VC, he will be happy he didn't get selected here.

.....and let the drama begin!

[...] and [...] have failed the students of NUJS. They pretended to be working a lot but clearly their efforts have added up to nothing. After trash-talking NKC among the students regarding his alleged closeness to the TMC, now they have the audacity to make this appointment seem completely all right. Let the student body get back to campus because we will not forgive you for playing with our futures.

KIIT's loss is NUJS's gain.

NKC is a good man. NUJS needs a level headed apolitical man who will focus on academics and cleaning up administration. NKC is the right person. I am so happy for NUJS.

NKC is a director at KIIT since 2009, after departure of Prof. Mustafa (except for a brief stint of around 6 months when Prof. Mrinal Raste was the director). He is liked by the management for being a good boy, who follows what the management says. He generally goes by the book and rarely takes bold initiative. God saves NUJS, which needs a real dynamic person who can take a stand and revive the university.

Trust me, he is the equivalent of Dr. Manmahon Singh in the legal fraternity.

not to mention how AG will be made the registrar soon!!

Sad but NUJS getting what it deserves. With so many student protests and horrible govt. in place alongwith disrespecting and removal of so many good professors by Ishwar Bhat regime, this law school will become more mediocre. Already, it has become Number 4 in preference after NLS, Nalsar and NLUD, very soon NLUJ, GNLU and even JGLS will also take it over.

Maybe if the students focused more on their own business and less on these things, the college would be far better served. Nowadays the people who come from NUJS to the firms have a chip on the shoulder as their best skill. We are going the NLS way.

khilaadio ka!!!

A petition is being drafted by alumni over the passing over of VCV... the inquiry committee at CU which found NCV falsified his CV will be raised.. the link will be shared on Legally India

The present SJA may keep ignoring alumni, but we are taking matters into our own hands... we cannot have this man sit in the same chair as legendary academicians like Menon, Chimni and MP Singh... even PIB had decent academic credentials.

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Yeh Shaadi Nahi Ho Sakti !!!

1. A lie is being spread that VCV was not interested and will head to NLUD. The NLUD VCship will be very competitive, so VCV is not assured of it. He would have preferred to "lock" NUJS.

2. When a report in the Telegraph says that NKC was found prima facie to engage in serious misconduct (lying about his CV and forcing students tp take private tuition from him) it must be asked how such a person can succeed the likes of Madhava Menon and MP Singh.

3. As for Rather Particular, you do not need NKC to discipline him. Anyone can file a complaint under the new UGC plagiarism rules (which apply retrospectively) and seek his dismissal. The question to ask is why the SJA is silent. Why Arjun Agarwal writes articles attacking faculty members but is silent on him. If this was NLSIU or NALSAR, the students would have complained.

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Rename NUJS to Beliaghata Law College.

If Sudhir can be appointed as VC of NLSIU, then an NUJS alum can at least be appointed as Academic Dean or something. While those alumni working in universities abroad will not be interested, a small number of NUJS alumni are working in Indian universities. In fact, the topper from the very first batch is a prof at Jindal.

http://www.jgls.edu.in/nemika-jha/

For those commenting on TMC supporting Anupama Ghoshal, her father Anup Ghoshal is no longer a TMC MP. She has also joined BJP in 2017, as you can see below. How can you then call her a TMC person? Has she left BJP and rejoined TMC after 2017? Maybe we can confirm by greeting her with Jai Shri Ram and seeing her reaction (smile or slap).


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https://english.kolkata24x7.com/biswa-bangla-a-company-owned-by-abhishek-banerjee-mukul.html/

This is the director who will supposedly standup for NUJS kids

https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/ed+times-epaper-edtimes/kiit+university+clashes+fight+erupts+between+engineering+law+students+section+144+imposed-newsid-102396050

NKC is the culmination of the Trinamool-isation of NUJS. He will dutifully impose domicile quota and get even more TMC people appointed on the EC than Bhat did (rumoured names include TMC lawyer Sanjay Basu and
Garga Chatterjee).

The whole appointment stinks of [...]. Taluk was placed by the TMC for 1.5 years. The VC appointment committee was set up with an ad hoc CJ from Bengal, just before the appointment of Justice Radhakrishnan (who was also NALSAR Chancellor). Then, the selection process was deadlocked for 7 months as the TMC govt (through its two men on the panel) refused to accept Justice Mishra's recommendation of VCV. In the end, Justice Mishra gave up and did not find it worth is time to fight over it. In the meantime, KIIT awarded an honorary doctorate to Mamata, while NKC tweeted in her favour.

He had applied to [...]: [...]

Here is the sensible thing to do. Let a student body rep meet informally with VCV and ask him if he is interested in the job. If yes, a protest should be lodged against NKC's appointment. If not, then the students will have to reluctantly accept NKC and accept that they have been checkmated once again.

I remember that sometime in 2005 NKC had applied to NUJS, but he refused the offer as he was asked to join as an Associate Professor and not given full Professor designation. It's interesting to note that now he will be joining the same institution as it's Vice Chancellor. It must be a very proud moment for NKC. I wish him the very best and hope that he is able to bring some fresh perspective to the 5 acre campus.

Here is evidence that NKC was rejected for the post of RMLNLU VC. His API score from his alleged 55 journal articles was not good enough. Furthermore, the Telegraph article linked in the above comments says the CU inquiry committee had already found that he had lied about his tacking experience. The RMLNLU committee perhaps found that out.

http://rmlnlu.ac.in/pdf/Notice%20_1-9march18.pdf

It is wrong to suggest that NLU alumni teaching at JGLS or NLUD will never leave for NUJS. They may do so under three circumstances:

1. If they are directly given professor rank --- what MP Singh did to attract Sudhir, Manoj Sinha and Shamnad (who was still a PhD student).

2. If they are given are given some sort of shared appointment, e.g. a permanent faculty at NLUD or JGLS, but visiting professor at NUJS.

3. Their hometown is Kolkata( (the reason why some NLU alumni already teach at NUJS).

Students from GB are now giving the surprised Pikachu reaction regarding NKC when this was inevitable given their attitude. When the SJA called a General Body meeting earlier to discuss about the VC selection, only about 30 odd students turned up from a total strength of 600 students. Most GB members are lazy and don't care about what happens to the university as long as they get their 10 lakh+ jobs. Now that this might be at threat, it is too late to repent. You reap what you sow GB

Justice League is advising Taimur not to abdicate so easily and drag the process on as long as he can. Meanwhile they are planning to bring their own people in via the Regi and AO positions so that NKC can't do much house cleaning even after je arrives. This is where student pressure should come in. The announcement must be made asap, no need to wait for EC meeting. EC members can always be informed through circulation within a week anyway. The new VC must at least have a say in the selection of the new Regi and AO, since he's the person who'd have to work with them for the next few years! This is a blatant last-ditch effort by Rather Particular and the Consti sen-sation to remain relevan, since they are part of this suspicious sub-committee to finalise new Regi candidate.

Petition started against NKC: https://www.change.org/p/chief-justice-of-india-oppose-the-takeover-of-nujs-by-mamata-banerjee-and-the-appointment-of-nk-chakrabarti-as-vc

Shamnad Basheer's latest tweet: a dig at NKC?

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The biggest tragedy of NUJS is that the SJA has alienated alumni, in contrast with other NLUs. This happened because some people waged a jihad against iPleaders, while remaining silent about the sins of "Particular" plagiarist, Pop Singer etc. These same people are hostile towards alumni teaching at NUJS, as for them a good prof is one who awards marks generously. SAD.

Arre bhai esko koibhi de do ho jayega....lekin NKC ko nahin. Reason ? very simple: Great Professor and his Chelas donot like him (are bhaiya uska academic quality ko khub beijjat ki thi unnone...very bad).

Saurabh for VC! Best teacher the place has now for a long time, cares about the place the most, spends the most time doing his work and genuinely cares for students! Has a good academic profile, a future star, an NLU alum. These are the sort of qualities that's sorely needed in NLU teachers and admin now.

Going through the CV of the picks for the post of VC of NUJS, sympathize with the intellectual aspirations of those who ganged up against Prof. Bhatt. You got what you deserved.

It is obvious that a feeding frenzy at multiple levels is underway at NUJS. Some observations.

1. Justice and Injustice League are locked in a mortal combat.

2. The outgoing SJA leadership is under fire (rightly or wrongly) and their opponents are going for the jugular.

3. Certain faculty members across both the camps are feeding false, misleading and truncated information to students and alumni because both Justice and Injustice Leagues actually profit if NUJS stays in a state of limbo.

4. Lord Taluk despite protestations doesn't mind staying on. Sensational doesn't want to leave. State patrons to both would love to have them stay on. Indefinitely. It is obvious that present state interests are better served by Lord Taluk and Sensational.

5. While no particular group has secured a decisive edge, Justice League has gained a foothold in key governing structures long denied by PIB. Injustice League is down but not entirely out. With Sensational help and friends elsewhere they have been able to frustrate EC instituted inquiries. Justice League also wouldn't want an exhumation of the Justice PN Sinha Inquiry Report among other things.

I find it strange that Injustice League didn't aggressively use the Justice PN Sinha Report and Justice Shyamal Sen opinion against key members of the Justice League (instead choosing to drone on rather particular plagiarism)? Similarly, it is hard to believe that Justice League haven't been able to get their dear Lord Taluk to complete the inquiries, which would have had disastrous consequences for Injustice League. One actually fled even before the inquiries started.

Have we cared to think why the faculty conduct their fights with kid gloves while reserving the killing blows for students?

6. There are interested outsiders who would love to rule via proxy. The "cooler"ones tweet, lobby in the shadows with the powers that be, get a gaggle of vocal alumni to fire up their juniors, peddle victim stories and other such tricks. The not so cooler ones do things with less class. The simple truth is no one becomes a VC without lobbying and a trade in favours at the expense of students.

VCV lobbyists are self-styled progressives and treat NKC with disdain as expected of elitists. I am not suggesting that NKC is actually better. But he is wronged due to his low glamour quotient. Both appear to be paper tigers. Would have been great had the search committee actually adopted the suggestions made by the SJA.

Remember this well - The path to hell is paved with good intentions. I am not belittling our protests. But are we sure that protesting students are not being used as a pawn in a dangerous game? Not advocating we sit out but reality check, please? If NKC is really that incompetent, he will screw up soon and then suffer a quick exit. We just need to keep a close watch. And if VCV really loves us (at least as much as the protesting students think he does) then he wouldn't mind getting a slightly delayed (choose colour wisely) carpet welcome.

6. Students are raw energy. A force of good that can also be misguided into authoring disasters. Almost everyone in the faculty, administration, governing bodies etc will love to see SJA/student power self-destruct or lose credibility. That will finally leave the field open for all of them to plunder crazy. Our crusade to get a better VC has already been hijacked.

Get smart. Lose ego. And truly listen to peers we disagree with. We are living (in) the university right now. Not the overrated alumni (broadly speaking). We may consult the latter. But we don't need their concurrence. We have our skin in this game of chairs. Alumni only have interests to secure (at least right now). There will be individual exceptions though.

7. PIB got a second term despite change.org and no confidence petitions. Sham moves engineered by PIB-slighted faculty and their alumni acolytes during PIB 1st term were fated to fail. The gaggle has reappeared now. Students are not central to their designs. We are pawns, useful idiots, the necessary pain to suffer for greater private gains later (for them). I would very much welcome if they stop doing things for us. Is it too disrespectful to ask them to do or not do things with us? Please take your proxy battles somewhere else.

8. SJA and students (also many in the alumni) overestimate our capacities. Not to belittle our and SJA efforts in evicting PIB but we now know that his state patrons wanted him gone and we unwittingly let in their agents Lord Taluk and Sensational who really didn't have to try very hard at divide-and-rule. I fear that our misguided (maybe deliberately guided by some in the faculty) protests for VCV and against NKC is putting us on a collision course with the selection committee members and other powerful folks.

I am not suggesting that we quietly accept things. Powerful adversaries needn't be taken head on. We prepare and strike when they are least prepared. Right now the best we can get is a deadlock and the worst (more likely) is a severe crackdown. Remember NUSRL Ranchi? Do we really want to invite that experience and its aftermath? Can we not get smarter? History doesn't auto-repeat. Our actions/omissions cause it to run in a loop.

9. Can we therefore deny further fuel to warring faculty, alumni upstarts (please concentrate on your start-ups), bleeding hearts, concerned academics, self-styled cool dudes, legends and others in the gaggle? That starts with us getting our own house in order.

Whether NKC or VCV, do we know what we (all) need from scholarship, faculty recruitment, hostel accommodation, campus security, transparency, staffing, alumni outreach, fundraising, research etc policies? Are we sure that our "dream" VC will not end up telling us "in your dreams" while making his next move on our fees? VCs have never been and cannot be silver bullets.

10. If there is one thing that the faculty here have taught us is that we shouldn't be them in any and every aspect. Can we therefore stop our internal strife and focus our energies in making lemonades out of the lemon (whatever variety) we are getting?

Let's pray that NALSAR implements 85% reservation as proposed by the Congress. If that happens NUJS is back in the top 3, NALSAR is out. Also, if NLSIU implements 50% reservation that too will help NUJS.

I gave the CLAT 2019 and as per my scores and cut-off trends, I will most likely be allotted NUJS. Reading the comments on this post has made me a bit skeptical about joining NUJS if given the chance. Is it worth it to join NUJS given the current state of affairs? And are the conditions really as bad as the people here are pointing out?
I would love to get some advice from law students and other readers who obviously have a lot more insight about the institution and its present conditions than I do.

He is another Madhava Menon in the making

If you guys have so much problem with the appointment of NKC as VC, why not campaign for SS as the VC. Atleast start a signature campaign. Knowledgeable, Young, Dynamic, Gold Medallist, Popular among students and Alumni, Nice Guy, NUJS Alumni, Non Controversial Figure, Generally Acceptable Person and also a resident of Kolkata - Hence looks like a long term solution. He will have a vision for the University and the University will grow with him.

This post is not meant to criticise NKC or the body appointing him, because does have a formidable CV and experience by his side, which is why the appointment.

As a student of the NUJS's MA in Business Law distance learning course conducted by the SDME (School of Distance and Mass Education), I am shocked at how badly this course has been conducted over the past two years. I am in the final semester of the course and like any other student, I have completed all the examinations and assignments alloted to me up till now - I have only one final exam and one assignment left. I am from the June 2017 batch.

In 2017, I was under the impression that NUJS was a good national law school and the couse, MA in Business Laws helped me gain an insight into the legal world with a focus on business law.

From all that I've read and gathered till now, it is a shame that a law univerisity (which supposedly teaches students how to interpret and study law) did not even tell its students like me why the course was shut off and what will happen to the money that thousands of students like me have paid for this course. They just put up a notice on the website stating that the courses have been suspended.

This is extremely unbecoming of a law school of such (allegedly) good repute. Either the university should refund my fees (Rs. 50,000) or they should go ahead an grant my degree to me (provided I complete all the requirements needed for completion of the course).

Shame on all the people who have been part of this decision to alienate students like me.

I will never recommend this law school to anyone I know.

It is a LIE the VCV is not interested in NUJS and will head to NLUD. The VCship of NLUD is very competitive and he may not get the job, so he is keen on NUJS. He can still be brought in if NKC's nomination is challenged (allegations in Telegraph article, inferior credentials compared to VCV etc).

Explains a lot of vitriol being spewed here by a section of the faculty

https://www.thestatesman.com/supplements/law/distance-education-mess-1502764247.html

SCOOP: I found a video of NKC. He is giving a video lecture as part of UGC Pathshala (which is normally done by junior academics, but anyway). In terms of communication skills, he appears to be a Bengali version of PIB. And he is certainly not high-profile in terms of academic reputation. That leaved administrative acumen, of which there is no great track record. Is the SJA sure that they want this person instead of VCV?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrKIDQUSYWQ[/youtube]

@Dig: We all know you're a JL member. Go and finish evaluating your answerscripts please, so that our results can be declared, instead of trying to rile up students to sabotage someone because he doesn't fit into your petty agendas.

Can someone please clarify who are the members of Justice and Injustice Leagues. I am assuming that JL are people who can be found milling around Lord Taluk (hence the name). And IL are folks who are mostly facing inquiries. Correct?

But why would JL go against NKC? I know quite a few JL members have vocal in their preference for VCV. In contrast, many IL members feel that they will be able to "manage" NKC better. Some others in IL lobby are known to be friendly with NKC (which may explain why some in JL don't want him) but have actually been instigating a select band of students against NKC.

I think @Observer made some pretty good observations. And if I read Observer correctly at no point did that person recommend speaking to any "decent" faculty members for advice, instead suggesting that students should abandon their ego and truly listen to their peers including those we may disagree with. Faculty and others, JL or IL are self-serving.

Some desperate TMC trolls trying to defend NKC and spread misinformation that VCV will get NLUD... won't work, boys....we will oppose the decision to install NKC and demand VCV.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/domicile-row-bengal-government-overrules-jee-board-s-constraints-in-ju/cid/1692181?ref=india_home-template

NUJS students instigated by Faulty don't understand that the state doesn't care if it is taken to the court. A quick search of Calcutta and Delhi HCs will show numerous active cases against NUJS


As @Observer rightly put it, a full-on, pitched battle with the state makes no sense. And we already know that the judiciary isn't really going to back us up. It has enough problems of its own.

NUJS in an extended state of limbo as @Observer puts it suits almost everyone - Justice and Injustice Leagues, Sensational and her friends in the EC, Lord Taluk and the state. They expect to frustrate the students into submission or even better, provoke them into doing something stupid.

It is in our interest to ensure that Registrar and AO positions are quickly filled up by permanent recruits so that no one can claim "Acting/Interim/Ad hoc" status to shirk responsibility while facilitating scams and stealthy state encroachment.

The longer the unholy trinity of Lord Taluk, Sensational and AO are allowed to continue in their offices, NUJS will get increasingly into trouble. Lord Taluk may want to scoot asap. The other two know that ***t comes before ****t.
and will

Friends, please ignore the NKC-TMC trolls. NUJS students have the right to get a good VC and one such person was in the shortlist but wrongly overlooked. This is the REAL issue now which students must fight for.

https://www.livelaw.in/columns/plagiarism-in-ailet-nlu-delhi-entrance-test-2019-145599

By the way, there are people who keep droning about rather particular instances of plagiarism and even provided screengrabs of Turnitin reviews. Now pray tell us why did you not pursue a written complaint against such a person? Did you write to Lord Taluk? Did he decline? Did you then approach the Chancellor and/or EC members? Why don't you do it right now instead of trying to burden Arjun?

As far I know Arjun was not spoon fed anything on distance education. He did his own research based on available governing body minutes etc. [...] Since then many in the faculty have wielded that blackmailing tactic on inconvenient students, sparingly. Of course, there are students who don't learn.

Say no to TMC and NKC!

Please please oppose NKC and support VCV. Ignore the lies that VCV is headed to NLUD (he won't get it, the post will go to a public law scholar). Under, VCV NUJS has a great chance of rising again. The students were silent when NS Gopalakrishnan was overlooked for PIB all those years ago. Do not make the same mistake again! The TMC vultures are at the door. Shoo them away!

I agree with @Guest 63.1 and Proofreader. The NKC video shows that he may not speak clipped English. But it fails to prove that he has no domain knowledge. His naysayers till now are simply peddling elitist crap. Yes, he has no background teaching in NLUs. MKS (a favourite with quite a few) also didn't have any till he joined NUJS. And MKS also speaks funny. But MKS knows his subject well. MKS had no prior law school admin experience when he was made ILI Director.

NKC has spent a lifetime teaching law. He has held admin positions in CU Law. And has been a Director of KIIT Law for a decade. Now we may of course debate whether he had a stellar record as a teacher and administrator. Compared to that VCV has mostly been on the teaching side and his so-called Dean/VC-ships have been mostly blink-and-miss. VC positions are mostly about administration.

NKC apparently faced an inquiry when he was in CU Law. What was the outcome? Do we have the inquiry report? How did those muckrakers miss these?

https://www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/nalsargate-download-full-judicial-report-on-gold-meddles-distance-learning-a-scorpions-nalsarites-call-off-protest-20120203-2548

https://www.legallyindia.com/analysis/nalsargate-the-inside-story-of-an-institution-and-a-secret-report-20120205-2549

VCV name cropped up in connection with irregularities in distance education programmes. Soon after the release of this URC report, VCV made a quick exit along with some others from NALSAR.

Many did not know (and could care less) Faizan Mustafa when he led KIIT Law and later NLUO. In both places his short stints didn't have earth shattering examples of teaching or admin excellence. And yet FM made it to NALSAR and a well known (self-styled?) bleeding heart. FM, who apparently can do no wrong had also strongly lobbied for the discredited ex-NLIU Director, Prof SS Singh for CNLU VC-ship. He has also batted in favour of another problematic VC https://www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/rgnul-students-nalsar-vc-politely-engage-after-faizan-argued-ncw-didn-t-follow-natural-justice-in-campus-inquiry-20190521-10331

FM journey shows that "unknown" folks can do wonders to an institution despite their funny accents, lack of spoken prowess and other things that make up the elitist glam quotient. And then people having all those things can be big let downs. MoGo was one at NLSIU. For more recent proof, just check in with RaGa (assuming he has realised it) or senior folks in Congress.

Do we really need to become a political football so that both JL and IL profit at our expense?

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mamata-banerjee-visits-protesting-doctors-asks-them-to-end-strike-in-4-hours-5778687/

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/bengal-doctors-remain-defiant-as-cm-mamata-banerjee-threatens-suspension-4094041.html

BREAKING NEWS: Hitler Mamata has made a comment (below) saying that she will impose a domicile quota in medical colleges to prevent "outsiders" from studying (in repose to the doctor's strike). She is creating a similar divide in NUJS. The SJA must file a PIL in the SC demanding the abolition of the quota and beg NLSIU to join hands. Secretly, I hope that the domicile quota is impose in NLSIU so they are forced to act.


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It has been made abundantly clear by the judiciary that they are fine with states imposing quotas. In NUJS, did the "Justices" even squeak a murmur of dissent when the state introduced the 30% quota? They didn't mind that the issue was not discussed in the EC before or after the introduction of the amendment. And you really think juridification will help? Judges read political tea leaves much better than you and I do. That's how they get elevated anyway.

Apparently NITs generally and the IIEST in Bengal already have a 50% state quota. JU has brought in a 90% state quota for its engineering seats and surprisingly, it was the state JEE Board that wanted the implementation deferred this year since it feared court litigation. It was overruled by the education department, and we know that Edu Secy who sits on NUJS EC will be singing HMV. He is leaving for Delhi in any case and not returning anytime soon as the Chief Secy position will be taken over by the current Home Secy in Oct 2018.

No political party (yes including Bhakt Jan Party) will go against a state quota since they have indulged in it as well. The only way we can make a jab at it is on grounds of procedural integrity, rational nexus to the objective, legislative overbreadth etc - all narrow technical grounds.

Election season has actually begun in Bengal and expect more changes. Whether such things will actually accrue benefits in the electoral hustings is a different debate. Provoking Didi without first building defensive capacities was always a stupid initiative by a section of students egged on by self-serving Faulty.

It now seems @Observer was right all along. We have walked into a trap set by the Faulty. I think we still have time to pull back and strategise. But that will require all of us to shed our inflated egos. Don't count on Faulty.

NUJS students must show solidarity with the striking medical students. Students of all top universities in Bengal (IIM, IIT, ISI etc) must unite and protest against Talibani Mamata.

NUJS please join the medical students strike. It is time to unite and bring down this demon dictator. You will also get more coverage if you go on strike now, as the national media is focusing on Kolkata. The demand is simple: VCV, not NKC.

[b]Bengal Will Amend Laws to Bring More Local Students to Medical Stream, Says Mamata Banerjee
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https://www.news18.com/news/india/bengal-will-amend-laws-to-bring-more-local-students-to-medical-stream-says-mamata-banerjee-2185557.html

NUJS is next unless the SJA grows a spine. See the video of this brave girl (student at NRS medical college) burn Hitler Didi's effigy [AUTHENTICITY CONTESTED]. The students also booed Mamata when she visited campus. NUJS students should similarly stand up.

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I disagree with the provocation that troubles in NUJS are linked to troubles with/within TMC. I have heard from seniors how NUJS was packed with Reds despite the so-called promise of autonomy by Mr Jyoti Basu. How crores were squirelled out and accounts dressed up due to intervention by the Reds. However, I will agree that scams in NUJS have always received patronage by agents of state, irrespective of the party in power.

I am told that NUJS doesn't even blip on Didi's radar. But it is a big deal for some of her minions who grace the EC. Don't we all know how certain EC friends of Lord Taluk and Sensational have taken unprecedented interest in NUJS and unsurprisingly the inquiries have gone nowhere (rather haywire in some instances); active suppression of investigations into faculty recruitment irregularities and burial of the Calcutta HC instituted Justice PN Sinha Inquiry Report. Yet these very "honourable" people are obsessed about annexe building construction; 7th CPC payouts to DEOs (and faculty) despite crores in overpayments etc.

As @Observer rightly put it we need to prepare ourselves first; have alternate plans; and then strike when our opponents are least prepared. Right now they are ready but we are not.

Just now Mamata has given a divisive speech condemning "Outsiders" who are not Bengali. She is imposing her domicile quota poison across universities.

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Kian, why exactly are purely political developments that has no bearing with the original story, being made part of this post? I mean, I don't have any issue with the comments, just slightly surprised to see them here. You can very well cover such developments in a separate post and all these comments can go there.

Keep it about the law school, people. Don't fall into the trap of all these people with vested interests, be it TMC or BJP or anyone else. That's what signals the death-knell for institutions. Everyone who is instigating students one way or another has his own agenda that doesn't include student or institutional welfare. Some of them keep flocking to the comments section every day, posting under different nom de plumes or plain anon to keep stirring things up.

See what the TMC has now tweeted following Mamata's speech! This guy is also expected to join the NUJS EC this year.

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I am shocked how the SJA is not demanding that NKC at least disclose the findings of the CU probe against him, as reported in the Telegraph. Suppose he was found guilty, do you want scholarships such a person as the VC?

The situation will not improve under any VC as the students are basically strong bullies. They recently bullied a teacher so much that she decided to not offer a scheduled course during the semester. This shows that students are ever powerful in the world of NUJS. No VC can stop them.

It seems NKC was taken to court by TMC man SSC a decade or so ago, challenging NKC's promotion to professor at CU. NKC was represented in court by a lawyer cum Left politician. SSC has always been a TMC man. But was NKC a Left man before Mamata came to power?

https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1587801/