NLU Delhi 2017 alumnus Saumya Sharma has made it to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) merit list’s toppers with a rank 9 in her first attempt at the exam, as first reported in her interview by blog Insights on India.
Sharma cleared it in her first attempt after beginning preparations on 19 February 2017, four months before the exam, according to the blog.
Nalsar Hyderabad 2011 alumnus Vikramaditya Malik is at rank 48 in this year’s merit list, reported the Tribune.
Malik, who graduated from Nalsar with five gold medals and eventually graduated from Oxford University’s LLM in 2013, is currently practicing law in Delhi.
This year was his fourth attempt at the civil services exam and his chosen subject was law. He is the son of Haryana IAS officer Yudhvir Singh Malik, his sister Surabhi Malik is a 2012 Punjab-cadre IAS officer and his mother Suchita Malik is an author.
NLU Delhi 2016 alumnus Aditya Vikram Yadav made it to rank 72 in the merit list.
There are probably other lawyers in the ranks of the merit list this year.
If you know anyone (or are someone) who cleared the merit list (as published by India TV News), please drop a comment with details under this story.
Update: Nalsar alumni from 2014 Utsav Parashar (rank 367) and Himani Sharma (rank 477), P Promoth from 2015 (rank 791), NLU Jodhpur alumni Jayantika Singh from 2013 (rank 286) and Preetesh Raman Singh (rank 205) from 2014, NUJS alumni Deepro Guha from 2013 (rank 395) and Aanchal Dalal (rank 136) from 2014, and NLU Delhi alumni Ritiraj (rank 583), Kavya Tangirala (rank 381) and Karan Chaudhary (rank 821) have also made it past the merit list.
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Utsav Prasar, Himani Sharma - 2014
Promoth - 2015
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Preetesh Raman - 2014
@LegallyIndia: Oxford does not award an LL.M., the degree Vikram got is the B.C.L.
Not only entrance but the promotion system is faulty based mostly on years in service as opposed to merit. What this means is that someone smart like Vikram will never be a secretary level because of fixed retirement age but several junior and younger people to him will be his seniors and become Secretaries in union ministries.
Very sad.
[i]In the West, they would welcome graduates of elite law schools into their civil services.[/i]
Why don't they just recruit out of law school given how great we are to have cleared CLAT!
[i]Something is seriously wrong with our system.[/i]
Absolutely agree with you. So much is wrong with the CLAT exam and our entirely city based experience. Oh! Did I get that wrong?
PS: You are an idiot and a cry baby.
It is the spirit that makes a great public servant. Google the names SR Sankaarn, Armstrong Pame, OP Chaudhary. Let me know how many of them have a degree from Oxford.
2. I'm glad my NLU has prepared me for a career in law rather than a career in the services. That job should be left to coachings, because my University is a law university not a public administration university.
3. What is this need to 'dominate'? You think some university label gives you the right to dominate people who genuinely want to work for the people? I abhor such 'dominance'.
Riti Raj
Kavya Tangirala
Karan Chaudhary
Total 5 from NLUD this year.
Yaar Tera Superstar Desi Kalakar
IAS: If you are a general category candidate and if your UPSC rank is around 90 then you have a fair chance of making it to the IAS. Similarly, a 465 rank for OBC, 650 for SC and 770 for ST should be good enough for IAS.
IFS: For IFS, a 115 rank for general category, 570 for OBC, 765 for SC and 925 for ST is likely enough to make the cut.
IPS: For IPS, 240 rank for general category, 735 for OBC, 800 for SC and 980 for ST may suffice.
On an average 360-370 posts are allocated to IAS, IFS and IPS out of approximately 1240 total posts which are filled up under the UPSC exam.
http://www.livelaw.in/five-nlu-delhi-grads-crack-upsc-civil-service-examination/
https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/inspiring-this-upsc-civil-services-examination-topper-quit-facebook-whatsapp-for-a-year-secured-rank-9/1150661/
https://barandbench.com/upsc-result-2017-nlu-delhi-nalsar-grads-clear-exam/
Very commonly said, someone could have been a great painter but has become engineer. Someone cud have been a great singer but was influenced to become a doctor.
I am not impressed by NLUs. The way engineering colleges mushroomed in every nook and corner of India, same way law colleges have come up.Last 30 years every 2nd kid was put in an engineeeing college. Now every 2nd or 3rd kid is put in law college.The profession is bound to lose its value and the lawyers are bound to be confused in life just like engineering students were. After doing engineering, every engineer did an MBA ! They dont even know how to repair a tubelight. And you dont become a good lawyer going to a branded expensive college, you become a good lawyer if you have a passion for it.
So all in all the law profession has lost its charm. And every law graduate becomes a piece of furniture in a corporate or a clerk doing routine unimportant stuff. As far as law firms are concerned, as rightly mentioned somewhere by a commentor on LI, these are family run commercial baniya firms where again you are a clerk.
Obviously, Guest is an idiot for saying that NLS is a "super flop", but still, data falsfication is too strong an allegation to levy.
Also, for the people commenting that civil services ranks are immaterial because no one wants to join, I could probably say the same for joining a firm and wasting my time correcting grammar and doing due diligence.
1. CAM- 6
2. SAM-1
3.Khaitan-2
4.Luthra- 2
5. Trilegal-4
6. AZB- 2
7. S&R- 2
8. Talwar Thakore- 2
9. Linklaters LLP- 1
The lowest of these will probably be Luthra which offers 15.5 for its "Superstar package". So, the median would be t15.5 (42 kids, median is the average of the salary of serial numbers 21 and 22, which would be these Luthra "Superstars").
Hope you take back your falsification comments now. :)
Shilpa Gual RMLNLU AIR (2015) 887
For example, RIMColians have forever been that for the Indian army. Hill schools like Sanawar were that till the mid-90s.
Out of law schools, one that doesn't get a mention often (because it is frankly middling as an institution of legal education), Army Institute of Law, Mohali, is one such place for the Indian army. I think we have had atleast 10 people per batch join the army every year since 2003. They all got in on individual skill sets, bit over 15 years have collectively stood as representatives of the institution.
Similarly, IITs have collectively held sway in the civil services. This is, at a very miniscule level, now being challenged by the law school system. This is a subjective opinion and others can disagree. However, I do feel that doing an year-on-year, complete and well researched list might be of value.
It can inspire more of the younger lot to see this as a genuine career option, it can help these insuring and their current batches to reach out and build bridges with the administrators of tomorrow, and it can help start dis-assembling the (mostly correct) rhetoric of law schools failure at creating social engineers.
I wouldn't want an institutionn comparison list that perpetuates tribal mentality, but would welcome once that allows us to envision ourselves as a collective.
For example, my uni (NLUD) is generally bashed for not sitting for placements and thus having subpar numbers, but this shows our preferences to some extent.
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