NLU announced an increase in the seats; Students smell a foul play

NLU announced an increase in the seats; Students smell a foul play

Only a few days before declaring the results, the National Law University announced its decision to double the number of seats for this year’s Master of Laws (LL.M.) batch. The decision has raised the suspicion as many candidates are seeing this as a convenient way to bring the students from the back door. Lawyer Mohit Gupta also filed an RTI query and asked for the minutes of the meetings which led to this decision. “What will be its (university’s) course of action if it is approached by a large number of students in the next academic year demanding an increase,” he asked. Originally the university has announced only 40 seats for the 2018 batch but after conducting the exam they raised the number of seats to 80. The entrance exam was held on May 6 but the notification announcing the increase in the number of seats was issued on June 27. “It is notified that the University has decided to increase the number of seats for admission to LL.M. program for the academic session 2018-19… The seats will be filled strictly on the merit of AILET-2018 in the sport counseling scheduled to be held on July 13, 2018. The seats under Foreign National category will be filled up on the academic merit of qualifying examination,” the notification issued by the University read. “I didn’t apply for the entrance exam thinking it would be tough to crack into the top 40. Had they announced the increase in seats, I would have applied, since NLU was anyway my first choice. The other two contenders — IP University and Jindal School of Law — are very expensive,” a student, who graduated from Delhi University’s Faculty of Law told IANS. When IANS contacted the university to the reason behind such a decision, an official from the university said “this was done to give a wider reach of legal education to society and that the decision was in conformity with the Admission Announcement as it also said the number of seats may vary”. “Moreover, the action taken by the University to increase the number of seats was also approved by the Academic Council and Executive Council,” NLU-D Registrar G.S. Bajpai said.

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