The Karnataka High Court has issued notices to NLSIU Bangalore and the state government after admitting a public interest litigation (PIL) that sought a reservation of seats in the national law school for students residing in the state, according to newspaper reports.
Advocate M V V Ramana appeared for petitioner B Srikumar before the division bench of justices V G Sabhahit and A S Bopanna when the matter was taken up yesterday as WP 18362/2010 in court hall 4.
The Times of India reported that Ramana told the court: “The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) was conducted on May 9 and the results were declared on May 29. The admissions for 2010-11 batch are going to be completed by June 28 and classes will commence from July first week at NLSIU, Bangalore. Of the 80 in the select list, less than 10% are local students.
“There are 11 National Law Schools in the country. In most of these institutions, a percentage of seats is reserved for domicile students. This percentage is up to 50 % seats in some of them. At NLSIU (Bangalore), no such percentage is provided for locals,” added Ramana according to the Times of India.
In September 2009 the Karnataka High Court had also ruled against the inclusion of SC/ST from outside the state under NLSIU’s LLB reserved category.
NLSIU does not currently have a local state reservation. In the most recent Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) 18 places were reserved for scheduled castes or tribes (SC/ST) from any state and 55 general places, which were also not state-specific.
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#3 I just wish if this is the case in other states why would not NUJS start reserving candidates from WB. We students from WB need a level playing field if reservation on basis of domicile is put in other NLUs. Why we would allow students from other states when other states doesn't.
However, my personal opinion is there should be no reservation in any educational institutions but only for PWDs and economically backwards.
For all I know my college is going downhill and I seriously hope that this PIL is not entertained especially when the wording of the Act says otherwise. And what is this bullshit about less than 10 percent from karnataka?? Might as well make it karnataka Law School. Next thing we know we will have a Kannada course to pass. Anyways, we have more than enough 'competent' Professors from Dharwad to enlighten us. I guess that is enough to make us 'd-Harvard' of the East.
God save NLS!!!
the best he could come up with was that 10% are localites, and hey, the only reason we have for asking for reservation is because NLIU and NALSAR (and a few more) have it? Priceless!! Someone should ask him as to whether he even has a real reason to put forth for asking for reservation.
Respectfully, Sir or Ma'am, I think you're overreacting. When you create a specialised institution for national excellence, there is no logic to regional reservations. It just contributes to divisiveness within the country. Unlike reservations for OBCs, STs and SCs, such regional reservations have no real constitution or even social mandate behind them. When people take this position, it doesn't mean that they believe that all fundamental rights should be abolished. I'm not sure how that conclusion was arrived at.
With due respect, the concept of NLSs is to establish premier institutes for legal education. It could be compared to IIM of management or IITs of Engineering. Imagine if IIT madras has a quota for TN students or IIM-A for Gujrat!!!
It is true that NLS/NLU are created by the state government, but the whole competitive spirit of the college comes from the fact that people from all over the country study in it!! They fight it out and come here. Students from Hyderabad leave NALSAR for NLSIU!!!
There is no reason why Karnataka people should be given reservation in NLSIU. Are we underprivileged? Are we dull-heads who can't compete with students of other states? Are we incompetent? Can't we make it to the top without using "state quota" ? WE DO NOT NEED ANY POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION/UPLIFTMENT... Thank You.
Currently, about 10% of the students in NLSIU are from Karnataka, this when only Karnataka has only 5% of the Indian Population. Isn't that a good thing (for pro-karnataka people)?
While I would not like to extend my argument on questioning the concept of "reservation" itself; I would like to point out that in NLIU, Bhopal which has 82 seats, only 41 are offered to All India Candidates. The situation is worse if u are a general category student, there are less than 30 seats on offer!
So much for being 'National' huh?
The quality of NLSIU goes hand in hand with the diversity it has. Please do not kill it!!!
If every NLS were to have state quota than what about those states that have no National Law Universities? What about TN or Himachal Pradesh for instance? Why is that they do not have a home-state NLS? Why are they at a disadvantage when compared to those who incidentally happen to have one in their state? Where is your "right to equality" then?
Disgusted that this PIL has been admitted!
-Born & brought up in Bangalore, Made it to NLSIU without a need for quota!!!