NLU Mumbai appoints Prof Panda from Berhampur as 1st VC, while 2 other Maharashtra NLUs plod along

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 By Legally India Law schools

The upcoming Maharastra National Law University (MNLU) Mumbai, has reportedly appointed its first vice chancellor, according to the Times of India.

The paper reported that Bhavani Prasad Panda, a Berhampur University law professor, “has written at least five books on human rights, environment law and disaster management”, and said that the college would live up to expectations.

SSRN lists one paper co-written by Panda with the title “Protection of the Elderly Consumers: Issues and Challenges”.

After years of political and regional infighting between Nagpur, Aurangabad and Mumbai, the state government eventually gave the green light to three national law schools in the state earlier this year, after being unable to decide on a single city location, as has been the case in nearly all other states with national law schools so far.

While chief minister Prithviraj Chavan had reportedly promised that the Mumbai and Aurangabad NLUs would start in June 2014, NLU Nagpur would take at least until June 2015, according to Nagpur Today in May.

However, DNA reported around the same time that despite a Rs 125 crore budget allocation none of the colleges would take admissions before 2015, since none had registered for the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT).

Comments

pi 17 Sept 2014, 10:27

+7 -6

is this the same prof panda who taught for sometime at nujs?

aaj ka arjun 17 Sept 2014, 12:18

+6 -6

yeees...!!! negative lottery ....!!!

pi 17 Sept 2014, 10:33

+9 -9

no campus no student no teacher only vc and notification, another nlu is born only to grow on website; hopefully this one (with hyper immense location advantage) would not go the dsnlu way. lot rides on its founder vc

3 nlus 17 Sept 2014, 11:35

+14 -4

Its a sick joke!! Three nlus in one state.

this l this s 17 Sept 2014, 16:11

+9 -4

"All thiz laaw thiz statoot you take it, put it in the dust bin"

A NUJS FAN

aaj ka arjun 18 Sept 2014, 04:52

+0 -0

Indian ***** Code !!

Student 18 Sept 2014, 17:20

Cheld, you will not learn IPShee like thiz!

Guest 17 Sept 2014, 16:57

Any brief idea when the school will have its first session?

Guest 18 Sept 2014, 09:41

+3 -0

Yay NLU Mumbai! The name sounds so cool! Because of the great locational advantage and autonomy, NLU Mumbai is poised to do well in the future.

kianganz 18 Sept 2014, 09:46

+7 -0

Dunno, the GLC authorities seem to have managed pretty well at ensuring GLC is doing as badly as possible, despite its location and history and bright students.

So if NLU Mumbai's admin is ineffective and the government insists on meddling and muddling it up, NLU Mumbai could end up being a massive waste of space despite its birthright.

Let's see how it goes :)

Guest 18 Sept 2014, 10:23

+1 -0

3 NLUs in a state? Is this a joke or what?

nostradumus sic 18 Sept 2014, 10:45

ap had 2 nlus and it broke in 2 parts, maha is having 3 nlus it will break into 3 parts - berar, visharva and maha

Duhh 18 Sept 2014, 14:25

Kian, GLC suffers from inflexibility - teachers, salaries, curriculum. Go to any other NLU (I am from one), faculty normally is sterling (not.....). But at least, the administration has flexibility.

MNLU will rock and how!!

ABC 19 Sept 2014, 13:02

+2 -0

Love the reporting by Kian. Here we have a massive scam and the blatantly illegal act of setting up 3 NLUs that should be prevented by a PIL, but Kian reports it like a Doordarshan newsreader, as if the news is as exciting as a bird sitting on a branch.

Are you kidding me? 1 Apr 2015, 14:56

Dude Kian! You have found SSRN so worthy to mention it as his achievement? :/ I once uploaded sex story and they even accepted that! :D

Shirish Sadanand Shanbhag 7 Apr 2015, 20:27

National Law University started in September, 2014, only with Vice Chancellor, no faculty, no facilities and infrastructure of Law University of Maharashtra. Gvernment want to open two more Law Universities in the State, just to please local people.
It has opened its first Law University by constructing a building on the play ground of Ismail Yusuf College. If Maharashtra Government want to open Lawe University, it should open it on Indu Mill Land, where Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar memorial is planned. It would be a befitting honour to architect of Indian Constitution, by opening single Law University of Maharashtra State, on Indu Mill Land. This university will have Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Indian Constitutional Law Research Centre on this Indu Mill Land, which will be the right tribute to doyan of law, Dr. Ambedkar.
Constructing huge statue of Dr. Ambedkar, and a park is not a use of this vast Indu Mill Land in his honour. Please do as I have stated above.
Shirish S. Shanbhag, Mumbai-400089. Dated: 08.04.2015 Email ID:

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