CNLU Patna students are reportedly protesting against the limited job prospects offered by the national law school.
Students were protesting outside the college and blocking the main gate, reported The Telegraph Calcutta on 16 April, having earlier filed a complaint with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar that the college had failed to provide jobs to graduates.
According to the paper the vice chancellor A Lakshminath could not leave the complex until they called the police.
It is understood that students are currently in the process of a hunger strike.
One student told The Telegraph that not a single company had visited campus to offer placements, contrary to the vice chancellor’s alleged promises of organising placement initiatives.
Another student reportedly said that no steps had “been taken to do anything positive”, with the college not even featuring in the country’s top 100 law schools despite earlier promises that CNLU would set an example to other states’ national law schools.
Lakshminath had told the paper that students’ allegations were “completely baseless” because they were frustrated and wanted “things to happen in a hurry.”
He added: “We want them to be good lawyers before entering the profession. As far as placement is concerned, the university is trying to invite companies. In fact, four companies had come here, but they were offering a very little compensation package.”
Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) in Patna was founded in 2006.
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Try to contact recruiters on ur level if univ fails. Dn't harm ur university reputation.
It is better that the reins of the University be entrusted to some young and energetic vice chanellor as well as Registrar. Sooner the better, to avoid further damage to the next batches of the University. It is high time that the vice chancellor as well as Registrar be given an unceremonious exit and be given a [...].
Chief Minister should personally involve himself and give a good rethinking to the whole affairs. Precious resources of the poor people are involved into it, and the same should not be allowed to be looted like this. Why students should be made to be at the receiving end. A strong facelift is the need of the hour at CNLU, which shall be a strong challenging job for the new incumbent. Let there be a fact-finding committee of parents and civil society and the responsible people must be brought to book.
Students are requested to do something concrete and take the protest to its logical end so that no more of their fellow students should suffer in future.
It's all the result of too many law schools too suddenly.
As for foreign law firms,
It's not a be all end all.
After the initial hiring spree, maybe lack of jobs might return.
Speaking in absolutes is generally not a great idea.
It's all the result of too many law schools too suddenly.
As for foreign law firms,
It's not a be all end all.
After the initial hiring spree, maybe lack of jobs might return.
Speaking in absolutes is generally not a great idea.
The students are currently on a hunger strike that has entered its 3rd day..and they still are appearing in there mid semester examinations that are currently underway. Still there has been no word from the college administration or the political junta of Bihar to the students call.
Also,its important to tell people here that CNLU is not "just another NLU" on the map..It has won many accolades and its students have won a lot of prestigious competitions..without any help from the college administration and a rather ordinary faculty. Definitely, they deserved better than this.
Unfortunately the college is run by a trust and students cant even appraoch the govt as CNLU students did.
And pune univ which is the only authority that can do something strangely does nothing.
Hope someday ILS students also get the guts to do something loke this!
You have every right to go on strike for facilities or mismanagement but not for placements.
I tend to make no remarks on the capacities and capabilities of VC. He may be a bad administrator for all reasons but going on hunger strike for placements seems, for lack of better word, childish.
#15: If mismanagement is the issue ILS law college undoubtedly tops the chart.
Such complaints are true for all NLUs. just that students from NLSIU/NALSAR/NUJS etc hide all these dirty secrets from the public.
CNLU and ILS are places where there is gross mismanagement.
it is quite comfortable to sit in a distant location and speak ideal like you are doing.
your opinion is based on that Telegraph report which has not unraveled the whole truth.
placement is not the sole issue of this hunger strike, though i find no problems in that as well in a job oriented university.
all these years the CNLU students have made lot of hue and cry about the non eligible faculty and extremely poor infrastructure that includes library and books as well.
our voices have crumbled, and no heed was ever paid. all the remedies for reform have already been exhausted. we were compelled to adjust with all of this. we have suffered a lot of difficulties with just one hope that probably at last we will get placed, now which has become a distant reality. CNLU has seen many previous protests which were not for placements at all. i just fail to understand how do you justify situation of a loan burdened student? how you expect him not to worry about a job for his living but to crave for quality legal education and that too in last 20 days of the college left. the college has failed to provide quality legal education in last 5 years. isn't that just enough!
it is high time to expose the reality of the so called brand "NLUs", which is yet another key objective of this hunger strike.
and to all those who think we should hit the road now, i assure them it is the next step in the row.
a) Stupid Dean/VC like [...]. While all can't have an MP Singh, Ranbir Singh is still better than [...].
b) Poor faculty.
c) Poor infrastructure.
d) Above all, stupid students. Guys at CNLU, if you want to get jobs,you have to work hard for it. CNLU can't help your cause.
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