NLU count to rise to 25 with Sikkim, J&K and Jabalpur (doubling up NLIU Bhopal) also getting on the NLU gravy-train-wreck

Monday, 26 March 2018 By Legally India Law schools

Sikkim and Jammu & Kashmir are set to get their own National Law Universities (NLU), while Madhya Pradesh will be getting a second NLU, in Jabalpur, after amending the NLIU Act 1997, reported the PTI in separate stories, and The Statesman.

The Sikkim NLU, whose bill was introduced on 7 March and passed within a day, will have 100 seats, of which 50 will be reserved for Sikkim-domiciled students.

The bill to set up J&K’s NLU was passed in the state assembly on 12 February.

Jabalpur will get an NLU even though Madhya Pradesh already has NLIU Bhopal, because the principal high court bench of the state is in Jabalpur.

A total of 12 government law universities affiliated to the UGC and the BCI have already been established under the NLIU Act according to the report.

While education is great, and legal education especially so, there’s a big track record of a lot of NLUs getting started up with a lot of enthusiasm and then being utterly ignored and continually underfunded into irrelevance, to the detriment of hundreds of aspiring lawyers.

Comments

vhp 26 Mar 2018, 11:32

+19 -4

set up more NLU's at Bhayander,Dahanu & Dombivli as well !
but nobody wants to talk about quality which is going down the drain.

Guest 26 Mar 2018, 12:22

+25 -1

This is getting ridiculous. The law ministry, headed by the incompetent Ravi Shankar Prasad, is sleeping. You cannot have more than 1 NLU in a state. We desperately need a law equating NLUs with IITs and IIMs.

Agree 26 Mar 2018, 13:10

+4 -1

Its become a joke!!!! Not enough faculty to fill up the vacancies and an idiots are allowing the mushrooming of N Schools everywhere. Why not grant the local universities NLU status?

Chamcha 26 Mar 2018, 14:08

+0 -0

A donkey is marked by obstinacy. Why are they persistent with an idea of doubtful value ?

NLU Stud 26 Mar 2018, 14:18

+3 -0

Consider a simple factor. How many of the current national law universities have a full fledged campus? The answer will leave you shocked. And we talk about comparing them to the IIT's and IIM's.

Mohanlal 26 Mar 2018, 14:48

+13 -0

More NLUs are a welcome step but that does not mean you run an nlu like a third rate local college like it's run in Ranchi, patna and Trichy. NLUs need to be brought under the Central Government and high standards of quality need to be maintained.

Guest 26 Mar 2018, 15:32

+6 -1

Another is coming up in Haryana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Law_University,_Sonipat

And the one in Aurangabad is ready: http://www.mnlua.ac.in

And the ones in Siliguri and Asansol will probably be given NLU status by the Bengal government .

So we are hitting 30.

Oh bro 26 Mar 2018, 18:34

+18 -1

[b]bro when NLU GOA is going to come[/b]

Mohanlal 26 Mar 2018, 20:50

If there's a state that needs an NLU, it is here, it is here!

Guest 27 Mar 2018, 07:43

Need a much required break. An one year LLM at NLU Goa/ NLU Sikkim can be the best way to take a long sabbatical. May be the LLB students will get a lot of professionals with practical experience to teach them that way.

Chamcha 27 Mar 2018, 10:22

MLU Goa should conduct residential continuing education programs for lawyers. From AZB no one ought to be given admission as they already go there on their own. Like residential schools in hills, the winter vacations could be an extended one so as to accommodate these programs.

Guest 27 Mar 2018, 00:51

+1 -3

I request LI to follow up on the Lawrence Liang story. It is unfortunate that this proven sexual harasser gets off the hook and is defended by leftist hypocrites, while these same people want Prof Johri's head at JNU on the mere basis of an allegation, just because Prof Johri is a nationalist and not a commie.

Save NLIU 27 Mar 2018, 08:57

Ohh God. There should not be another NLIU!!! It will really spoil the quality. One is good enough.

What does this mean? - "A total of 12 government law universities affiliated to the UGC and the BCI have already been established under the NLIU Act according to the report."

There are 12 law colleges under NLIU?

Worried 9 Apr 2018, 13:00

Just wait for the search committees (comprising of the wonderful persons) being constituted.... or may be, one day the name of the Vice Chancellor is flashed on the news channel. Any thing may happen.

Adv MP 10 Apr 2018, 15:03

https://www.bhaskarhindi.com/news/governor-anandi-ben-patel-issued-ordinance-to-open-national-law-university-in-jabalpur-33831

Ordinance issued by the Governor of MP

Guest 5 Jun 2019, 07:09

Count will rise to 26 and not 25, you forgot Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Law University, Rai, Sonipat, Haryana.

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