Scoop: This latest postponement will now push the CLAT nearly to October
The 2020 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has been postponed to 28 September 2020, a meeting of the CLAT consortium of national law school vice-chancellors (VC) decided yesterday.
According to the notification, a copy of which we have seen and which is expected to be notified shortly, the exam will now be held on Monday, 28 September, from 2 to 4pm.
Of particular concern in the decision was the situation of different lockdowns in various states, since the consortium can only hold a single physical exam nationally in all states contemporaneously.
According to the notification:
At this meeting, the Executive Committee assessed the prevailing lockdown situation in various parts of the country and in particular, took into consideration the lockdown announced in the state of West Bengal for the 7th September, and the continued lockdown in the state of Bihar until the 6th September. On this basis, the Consortium has taken the following decision:
The CLAT 2020 examination for both UG and PG candidates scheduled for 7th September, 2020 has been postponed to Monday, the 28th September, 2020 from 2 to 4 PM.
The CLAT had on 10 August been postponed to 7 September.
Comments
I am no fan of dragging kids out in a pandemic to make them write an exam, and further delays may also be acceptable, but online isn't a good idea.
LSAT can be conducted online, and with minimal or no use of dishonest means. CLAT can't be conducted in a similar fashion. The two are very different examination and what works for one need not work for the other.
I guess because of the ALLEN controversy Consortium is also playing safe.
1. She has no idea of what CLAT is and no idea of legal education.
2. She did it on purpose. TMC goons would have barred examinees except their own people, who would have entered NUJS via the domicile quota.
Also, "Access Jihadis"? Really?
Disappointing (but not surprising) how you saffron folk poison whatever setting you bless with your presence.
Or wait, would you then be a kaagaz vaala jihadi? A bit hard to keep up with the never ending inanity, I guess I should also start watching prime time "news" to dumb myself down to levels where I can understand what is being said by our great fellow citizens
https://twitter.com/iindrojit/status/1299288698727563269
From India Today editor.
We don't have any faith in Clat committee.
Why not you conducted the Test for all India and organised on a later date for West Bengal and Bihar??
Use class 12 marks or conduct online test. You don't have any other option. And please save us from harassment.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/3-senior-vb-officials-dismissed-from-service/articleshow/77829175.cms
A new viral affecting universities in WB? Something similar allegedly took place in a univ that recently appointed Justice JB (mentioned in the weblinks above) as a Chair Prof. Quite a coincidence! Another inquiry for Justice JB? The students of this univ had previously alleged in a letter to their Chancellor that an interim Registrar had manipulated EC minutes. But this time it is the VC, apparently.
Guess manipulations of minutes (everywhere) is common. Exposure and punishments, aren't.
https://indianhistorycollective.com/what-happened-to-the-virus-that-caused-the-worlds-deadliest-pandemic/
On another note, I came across the following post on Facebook by Sidharth Chauhan who is currently teaching at NALSAR. I hope that more teachers and experienced practitioners will come forward and share their content with the larger community of law students.
A few weeks ago I had posted on LinkedIn, offering to share my notes and the recommended textbooks for a course titled 'An Introduction to Legal and Political Philosophy' (May-June 2020). This was conducted online as part of the Virtual Law School programme organised by Nachiketa Mittal (). Nearly 60 individuals wrote in to ask for these materials.
Following on from this, I have taught another online course titled 'Theories of Adjudication and Interpretation' (July-August 2020) as part of the same programme. I am happy to share the recommending readings and the class recordings (.MP4 format) for 20 hours from this course. Those who are interested in receiving them can send me an email ().
I would like to clarify that I have taught these online courses on a purely voluntary basis and have not received any remuneration for them. Priority was given to law students enrolled at institutions where classes have been disrupted in recent months. Around 40 students completed the first of these courses while 25 students participated in the second one.
In case some of you find the content of these courses to be worthwhile, I would request you to make contributions to the Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) programme started by the Late Dr. Shamnad Basheer in 2010. The IDIA Charitable Trust is currently supporting 79 law students across India who come from underprivileged backgrounds: https://www.idialaw.org/donate/
https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/car-too-costly-for-district-jee-aspirants/cid/1790624
https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/calcutta/coronavirus-outbreak-covid-fear-shows-in-jee-main-turnout/cid/1790692
Learning Articles 14 and 21, differently.