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| 17th
Sep 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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30 law colleges derecognized, 20 get notices
BCI Move Meant To Tone Up Legal Edu System
New Delhi: The Bar Council of India has decided to derecognize
more than 30 law colleges and sent notices to 20 others
to improve infrastructure with an objective to tone up
the legal education system. Unlike previous years, the
BCI has also decided to approve only 20 of the 70 applications
that came in for setting up of new law colleges.
BCI sources said the number of colleges getting notices
could go up as the council is still drawing up the final
list. Derecognition will be effective from the next academic
year. The council has already discontinued the system
of permanent recognition and has decided that law colleges
will have to seek recognition on an yearly basis. If it
comes to the BCIs notice that any institute has procured
recognition through illegal means, it will be derecognized
immediately.
Confirming the decision, BCI chairperson Gopal Subramaniam
said, this is for the first time in the history of the
BCI that such a decision has been taken. It was done through
a democratic process and after proper discussion.
Subramaniam said the BCIs review committee looked into
the composition of faculty, salary of teachers and their
payscale and infrastructure. In many cases, he said, affiliation
was given without the mandatory inspection. We issued
showcause notices to colleges, state governments and universities
and followed a democratic procedure. Most of the derecognized
institutions are in the private sector. We gave leeway
to womens institutions and those in tribal areas, he said.
BCI sources said, The idea is to bring down the number
of law colleges from 900 to 175. We do not want to replicate
the Medical Council of India. We want to bring together
seven-eight colleges in an area and get them affiliated
to one university. It will be easier to manage.
Edu loan cant be denied citing low marks: HC
Chennai: Coming to the rescue of a Dalit boy who was denied
educational loan because he had scored less than 45% marks,
the Madras high court has said it was unfortunate that
banks were inventing reasons to deny loans to students.
Justice D Hariparanthaman, directing the State Bank of
Travancore to extend educational loan to S Maran who joined
the SKR Engineering College at Poonamallee in 2008, said
had such an attitude been adopted earlier, even the architect
of the Constitution, Dr B R Ambedkar, could not have pursued
his higher education. Court: 50% marks must for MBBS Thiruvananthapuram:
In a setback to self-financing medical colleges, the Kerala
high court on Thursday upheld the MCIs rule that a candidate
for admission to the MBBS course must secure 50% marks
in qualifying exams (Plus II) and the entrance test.
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