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A student’s open letter explains 3 problems with Jindal Global Law School & admin’s rebuttal

A student from Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat, who has requested anonymity, has contacted Legally India with a request to publish an open letter with some criticism of the administration. We have published the letter in full and asked the administration for a response, which is published in full below the letter.

I am a student at Jindal Global Law School and I hope that you could publish this write up about our law school that will give you some insight about the administration.

1) High Fees

Undoubtedly, JGLS is one of the most expensive law schools in India with a cumulative fee of Rs 7,25,000 for the upcoming batch. The administration justifies this exorbitant charge on the ground that we have some of the best faculties who need to be paid good salary. From a capitalist view point it makes sense if one is to accept such an argument, but the same argument cannot be obviously applied to the residence and dining charges.

Take for instance, the residence charges at Amity, Gurgaon which is actually located in Manesar, which is at a very good distance from Gurgaon to be modest. I do not wish to compare JGLS' residence fee with that of Amity Noida, as while real estate prices are comparable in Sonipat and Manesar, the same is not the case in Noida and Manesar/Sonipat and residence fee to a large extent is determinable by the location and real estate prices. Also, Manesar and Sonipat are similar in other aspects that both are located in middle of nowhere in wilderness of Haryana, though one must say that Amity Manesar is pretty close to Aravali range, a delight for those who are interested in trekking and mountaineering.

Now, coming to the actual data, Manesar campus has following fee:

  • Residence Non A/c – 50000 pa (Inclusive of Laundry) – It doesn’t have an air conditioned campus, but coolers are allowed.
  • Manesar, Residence A/c fee – Multiplying Non A/c fee by 1.8666666667 (which is the ratio of fee between A/c and Non A/c at Amity Noida campus) – Rs 93333 pa
  • Manesar Dining Charges – 3,000 pm – On an average no law student stays for more than 9 months at the campus, though usually its only 8 months. So annual fee is Rs 3,000 x 9 = Rs 27,000
  • So Manesar total fee = Rs 93,333 + Rs 27,000 = Rs 1,20,333

The initial fee at JGLS was even less than Rs 1,20,333 but it has seen a gradual increase of 10% every year and now it has reached a staggering amount of Rs 1,75,000 pa, only to be increased again next year. Potential students must take note that they might be promised that the increase in residence fee will only be once during their five year stay at the campus but this is not the case, if anybody tells you so ask them to give this in writing, an annual increase at 10% being compounded will be 1.6 times the original amount in the final year and those who are on an education loan will face difficulties. (Check this link to see last year fee) Having been to both Amity Manesar and JGLS, the campus are comparable (As a matter of opinion, I guess the classrooms at Manesar are in a better shape) and there is no reason to justify the annual fee hike. Since, Amity is a multidisciplinary university in real sense that they have students from all streams including sciences, they also have some other facilities that JGLS lacks.

However, what is more problematic is the fact that from 2 sharing rooms, JGLS has now shifted to a policy of 2 and 4 sharing rooms but the fee hike doesn’t seem to stop. When asked by the students the reason for the hike, administration comes up with dubious reasons such as that they have brought more vendors to the campus, these vendors pay rent to the university and are a source of revenue, it becomes difficult to understand as to how does an increase in number of vendors at campus can lead to increase in fee. Similarly, a tiny increase in water or electricity charge will be asserted as a ground for 10% hike in the total fee, there is simply no concept of a proportionate hike. To sum up, fee is being increased, student intake is being increased, but there is no proportionate increase in facilities for the student, but rather most of the facilities are now used by more students they can accommodate and no new facilities have been provided to justify the increase.

Coming to tuition fee, I accept that JGLS has way better faculty than most of the other law schools in the country. I, myself before joining JGLS attended a middle rung NLU for a couple of weeks, and there is not an iota of doubt that we have much better faculty. However, the fee is also disturbingly high and as a result expectations are higher. There have been instances where due to conflicts between administration and faculty have led to faculty resigning during the middle of term, for some batches, the new faculty never joined and administration, not having any back up asked people from admissions office to teach them. Similarly, some of the faculty who are consistently getting negative feedback for years are not removed.

This might also be due to the fact that appraisal policy at JGLS is such that even if you are the worse of the lot as long as you publish paper in reputed journal, your job is safe with a hefty bonus coming your way. While many of us advised are advised by the university to not focus on CV building but rather on learning, the university seems to ignore its advice and is less focused on good teaching experience but more focused on international university rankings which also take into consideration faculty publications of a university while determining its rank.

Even bigger problem is that the most of the faculty tends to leave after gaining couple of years of experience at the campus due to obnoxious policies of the administration. After having talks with several of the faculty I came to know that most of them are assured extensive academic freedom and a good lifestyle, but when they do join the university they are treated worse than students with sometimes being forced to attend useless conferences on weekends. Student – Faulty bonding outside campus is discouraged, and they are asked to take permission for the simplest of things. The repressive environment at JGLS does not leave much option to students as they are stuck here but most of the good faculties leave the university as soon as their bond is over. If one is to file an RTI he will find that attrition rate at JGLS is worse than many of the law firms and IT companies in India!

2) Repressive Policies

JGLS is one of the most repressive campus in India. Having been to various fest at various other law schools, I can say for a fact that no other law school has policies as repressive as JGLS. Students till their 3rd year are compelled to take a gate pass for which their parents are called, this may be justified on the ground that it is for security reasons but what is perplexing is that libraries at JGU are not available 24x7 and one cannot stay in the academic block if one wishes to do so till late night as all students are expected to be in their hostels by 12:00 AM. Similarly, one needs permission for everything, be it using his/her own classroom or be it putting up a tiny food stall or doing anything new that might make minimal or incidental use of university's infrastructure. The process to get permission is more difficult than getting things done at a governmental department, you have to send mails to student dean initiative, then to a faculty who is willing to be in-charge for whatever you intend to do, then to some administrative staff and so on. As a matter of fact, if you even want to mass mail to student community at large using university's mail system that is also censored and more often than not if it’s an urgent mail it will be approved hours later when it need to reach.

Kian, I hope you remember the story that you did of a professor trying to do a roast at JGU, while he was not allowed to conduct the roast as expected despite the VC's statement on your website that he is all in favor of freedom of speech […]

Updated with statement from former Jindal professor Abhishek Sudhir:

The JGU roast was conducted on March 12, 2014 in front of a student audience numbering more than 200. It was done as part of the World Kidney Week celebrations on campus and I did not seek the prior permission of the administration to conduct it. Nevertheless, I faced no consequences for conducting the Roast. My departure from the University had nothing to do with the Roast. Yes there were run-ins with the administration as I was quite vocal about several issues, but at the end of the day, the decision to part ways was mutual. I have moved on to bigger and better things- I have founded a startup (Sudhir Law Review) and continue to work for JGLS as an external consultant on the UGC E-Pathshala Project.

3) Infrastructure Crisis

This might be seen as first world issues by some people but when you have to face it every day after paying insane amount of money, you tend to be concerned about it. To put things into perspective, JGLS' first batch was of `70 students, the upcoming BALLB batch would be of 360 students! Also, there would be considerable increase in student body as whole due to new courses such as integrated BBA MBA Program, some new masters degrees in humanities, and an overall increase in other courses. However, we have the same gymnasium of the same size that was used by the first batch, and a common room (place to chill out by students) one fourth the original size. The dining hall has been considerably expanded but during peak hours I have observed that only those who had experience of traveling in Bombay’s locals are able to grab a chapati, rest simply accept defeat after waiting for several minutes. The space cramp in kitchen can be felt by the constantly deteriorating standards of hygiene with dead insects in food becoming a common sight. All this is still fine, the real problem is the lack of classrooms, since there has been an exponential increase in student intake, there are not sufficient classrooms to conduct classes as a result of which the first years will have to attend classes in a manner similar to that of DU. They will have a two hour class, then two hour break and then another class and so on. During the break another bunch of students will attend a class in the same classroom. This will effectively lead to classes being held till 7 or 8 in the evening and ruining the entire day, leaving little time for self-study. (Two hours intervals during classes can incentive only the rarest bunch of students to study, considering the fact that they another class to look forward to once break gets over) This will also prevent them from taking part into extracurricular that require long practice sessions. So much for being a global university.

All this is not to discount the fact that JGLS is good at many things, be it be the almost never ending talks by experts on almost anything and everything under the sun, or be it be an overall great set of professors, a vibrant community but there are things that need to be fixed and they can no longer be fixed by pleading with administration but the approach is to name and shame them and hopefully, administration will finally do something about it rather than simply denying everything which it has been doing consistently for some time.

Now comes the most important as to why I have written this post. Dear, law aspirants do not for even a moment think that such issues are confined to Jindal only but you will find similar issues in every law school (See articles on Lawctopus and Legally India regarding issues in other law schools such as NLSIU, NUJS, NALSAR, NLUJAA, GNLU, HNLU, RGNUL etc. etc.), the reason I write this post is that once you join the law school you have almost little or no say at all in decision making process of the administration, but before you join the law school, you can ask them to fix up at least some of these issues. But beware, all kind of assurances will be made to you during the time of admission, do not believe anything that is not given to you in writing by the administration, as it is the university's standard response to deny anything and everything that is not given in writing to the students.

You are my only hope to fix JGLS as our student council is an utter failure in this regard, University only listens to them on trivial issues such as laundry, clean water, etc. Things that one should expect to work reasonably well without needing the interference on part of student council, but when it comes to real policy issues, decisions are made without consulting them. Be it be the change of residence policy from 2 sharing to 3 and 4 sharing rooms, or the fee hike issue, or be it be the reduction in re-examination fee (Rs 5,000/-), councils have come and gone but none has been able to change anything about these bigger issues.

This is for my fellow Jindalites/Jiggles, if you think that this post will reduce your chances of getting placed, think hard and think again, do you really want to work at a place where you are ostracized for criticizing policies that adversely affect you, because that is the place you are looking forward to work at in case you think that recruiters will not hire bunch of law students who do not necessarily agree with the way their institute is being run.


Rebuttal by JGLS administration via registrar YSR Murthy

 

Anonymous complaint from a student

Response

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High Fees – Undoubtedly, JGLS is one of the most expensive law schools in India with a cumulative fee of Rs 7,25,000 for the upcoming batch. The administration justifies this exorbitant charge on the ground that we have some of the best faculties who need to be paid good salary.

This statement is inaccurate and does not reflect the true picture. For five year B.A. LLB programme, the programme fee is Rs. 5.5 Lakhs.

If one wants quality education whether in a foreign country or in India, it will cost.

JGU is very transparent. Its admission brochures explicitly state the costs involved. Its admission offer letters also mention the costs involved in a transparent manner. Any increases to these fees are also duly communicated to all concerned. JGU provides generous Scholarships and studentships to students to ensure that nobody is deprived of an opportunity to study at JGU just because the person cannot afford to study. JGU spent nearly Rs.  40 crores towards scholarships for students since its inception.

It is not possible to attract outstanding faculty members unless they are paid well.

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From a capitalist view point it makes sense if one is to accept such an argument, but the same argument cannot be obviously applied to the residence and dining charges.

This statement is inaccurate and does not reflect the true picture. JGU is a non-profit university. A sum of Rs. 1,75,000 per annum is the fee for the current year student on account of air-conditioned accommodation, food and laundry facilities. Several schools in Delhi and elsewhere charge over Rs. 2.25 lakhs for these facilities. JGU has not passed on full costs under these heads to students over the years but has subsidized these charges by absorbing a part of these costs. We have indeed subsidized every thing. Indian School of Business (ISB), a similarly situated institution in Hyderabad charges Rs. 28 lakhs per annum. JGU charges 4-5 times less than ISB because it is subsidized by the generosity and philanthropy of its Chancellor Mr. Naveen Jindal. Everything in JGU is subsidized for the students and we don’t receive any funding from the government and there are no other funds received from any other organization or institution and the only donor is the philanthropist Chancellor Naveen Jindal. The difference in fee structure between JGU and ISB is a very good comparison to bring home the point that JGU is subsidized.

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Residence fee to a large extent is determinable by the location and real estate prices.

This has no bearing at all as it is construction of the campus is on the prime land acquired from open market through its own resources. In any case, this burden is not passed on to the students. The main expenditure is the air conditioned housing facility, air conditioned dining halls, air conditioned classrooms, air conditioned gym, air conditioned student common rooms. JGU spends a significant part of its resources on power back up and continuous availability of air conditioning even when regular power is not available. This means that much of the resources is spent on DG supply and power back up. Again all of this is not passed on to the students as we believe very strongly that high quality education should be accessible and hence, subsidized.

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Reference to other institutions

JGU does not wish to comment on other institutions. Parents though they have had multiple options to choose from, preferred JGU, which published its fee schedule up front in a transparent manner. Transparency and complete disclosure are our deeply held values and we will never waver from them. It is also our policy not to comment on other institutions. It is for the people to judge the quality of the institutions. In the first year in 2009, there were around 150 LSAT takers and we admitted nearly 100 students. In the current year, there are over 4000 LSAT takers and we will admit 360 students. There is a doctrine in tort law called “Res ipsa loquitur” (latin), which means, “the thing speaks for itself”. JGU and JGLS will be judged on the basis of our contributions by the larger community of our distinguished alumni, students, faculty, educationists, lawyers, judges and others. It is not appropriate for us to talk about other universities and how we are different from them.

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Potential students must take note that they might be promised that the increase in residence fee will only be once during their five year stay at the campus but this is not the case

This statement is inaccurate and does not reflect the true picture. JGU is founded on institutional values that deeply reflect our sense of commitment and dedication to institution building on the basis of honesty, integrity and rectitude. Everything that we do is fully transparent. Every letter of offer of admission, every admission brochure and all communications to parents and students have been fully transparent and are available for spot verification. Again, such kind of sweeping allegations with no basis cannot be responded in any other manner, except by saying that this is a blatant lie and it is unfortunate that blatant lies are being made.

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To sum up, fee is being increased, student intake is being increased, but there is no proportionate increase in facilities for the student, but rather most of the facilities are now used by more students they can accommodate and no new facilities have been provided to justify the increase.

This statement is inaccurate and does not reflect the true picture. Campus facilities have increased multifold since 2009. I wonder whether this person is even our student or not. In 2009, we were operating out of a much smaller library. Today, we have a state of the art library facility incomparable to any law school in India. We had a much smaller moot court room. Now we have a full-fledged moot court with state of the art facilities. A few years ago, we never had so many student common rooms and now we not only have several student common rooms, a few of the student hostels also have a gym. In the current year, we are making more gyms and every student housing will now have its own Gym. This is in addition to a common Gym that we have near the academic block. A few years ago, we had a smaller common gym, but with increase of students, we significantly increased the facilities and have a larger gym with all kinds of facilities in it. In fact, the sports facilities in campus are incomparable to any Law School in India. We have state of the art tennis courts – all synthetic and flood lighted, volley ball courts, basketball courts, cricket field, night practice facilities for cricket, football field, badminton courts, table tennis, billiards etc. Believe it or not, our student common rooms have billiards tables. All these facilities have been increasing every year and we have increased the facilities significantly and much more than increases in the student capacity. In addition, we have built new dining halls and a food village which caters to different culinary tastes and preferences of our students. We have also established a comprehensive convenience store on campus that will ensure that students are able to buy all their day to day needs on campus. There is a salon as well. In addition to all of this, in the current academic year, a new non-vegetarian food village is being built on campus. Many infrastructural improvements in the hostels have been done. A music room for students has been created. IT facilities are being expanded significantly.

The University has not only been continuously augmenting its existing infrastructure & facilities, but also adding new facilitates regularly. All our infrastructure, viz. Library, Gymnasium, Playgrounds, Common Rooms, Leisure facilities are kept at more than adequate levels as per norms, standards & regulatory requirements. 8 new smart classrooms have been added in the year 2014.

These statements made by whomever concerned are made with a malafide intention to defame the JGU and JGLS. They are not only inaccurate, but also reflect downright dishonesty in the tone and the tenor in which they have made. In the normal course, anonymous and inaccurate statements of this kind should be trashed as not worthy of reaction.  But given the fact that we have respect for the media and in particular, Legally India, we are giving the relevant facts for your knowledge. In fact, most of these statements are verifiable. Persons making irresponsible statements made with a malafide intention to defame should be made accountable. With freedom comes responsibility and people cannot shirk away from their responsibility. By making completely untrue statements, each of which can be easily verified on campus, this person has wasted the precious time of Legally India and the institution. We encourage the visit of Legally India correspondent to visit JGU and see facts on the ground.

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Coming to tuition fee, I accept that JGLS has way better faculty than most of the other law schools in the country. I, myself before joining JGLS attended a middle rung NLU for a couple of weeks, and there is not an iota of doubt that we have much better faculty. However, the fee is also disturbingly high and as a result expectations are higher.

It is widely acknowledged that JGU has the best faculty.

It is not possible to attract outstanding faculty members unless they are paid well. I don’t see why this contradictory statement is being made. This is obviously the reason for the fee, but we do not agree that our fee is high. In fact, the fee at JGU and JGLS is relatively low for what it is offering. We have subsidized the education for the students due to the philanthropy of our Chancellor Mr. Naveen Jindal. Again, it is important to note that a similarly situated institution, ISB Hyderabad (good infrastructure, air conditioned classrooms and housing, good faculty including international faculty) charges 4 to 5 times more than JGU. ISB charges approx. nearly Rs. 28 lakhs per annum. But we are able to charge 4 to 5 times less than ISB because of the generous and magnanimous philanthropic contribution of our Chancellor.

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There have been instances where due to conflicts between administration and faculty have led to faculty resigning during the middle of term, for some batches, the new faculty never joined and administration, not having any back up asked people from admissions office to teach them.

This statement is inaccurate and does not reflect the true picture. It is a completely baseless statement. JGU does not engage in termination of its faculty members, as we believe that we need to nurture and mentor the outstanding faculty we hire in the first place. A few of them left for pursuing higher studies and other professional pursuits. All faculty members who teach at JGU have outstanding qualifications and experience. We always maintain a 1:15 faculty student ratio, perhaps the best in the country while the Bar Council of India’s requirement is 1:40. However, to tap the talent, expertise available within & outside the University, we engage specialists to further supplement our regular teaching resources.  This statement made by the concerned person smacks of personal animosity, rather than anything accurate. All faculty members including those who have ever taught any course to our students either have the requisite qualifications or possess more than adequate qualification. We value our responsibilities to teaching very seriously. In fact, this is one of the reasons why in the first year of our founding, we introduced the Teaching Learning Feedback Questionnaire (TLFQ) which will enable the students themselves to assess the performance of each and every teacher.

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Similarly, some of the faculty who are consistently getting negative feedback for years are not removed.  This might also be due to the fact that appraisal policy at JGLS is such that even if you are the worse of the lot as long as you publish paper in reputed journal, your job is safe with a hefty bonus coming your way.

This statement is inaccurate and does not reflect the true picture. JGU carefully selects its faculty members and values each and every member selected. In fact our purpose to introduce TLFQ is to precisely give an opportunity for the student to assess the teacher’s classroom performance and the teacher to receive a feedback as to how the student perceive the teaching of the concerned faculty member. There is a very transparent faculty appraisal process as well as a faculty mentoring scheme. The TLFQs submitted by the teachers are carefully examined and a number of measures and steps are taken. The purpose of these schemes and processes are to ensure that we maintain the highest quality in our teaching and research. The point about research and publication is a ludicrous statement. Every good university should seek a sound balance between teaching and research. Both are important for promoting excellence.

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Even bigger problem is that the most of the faculty tends to leave after gaining couple of years of experience at the campus due to obnoxious policies of the administration. After having talks with several of the faculty I came to know that most of them are assured extensive academic freedom and a good lifestyle, but when they do join the university they are treated worse than students with sometimes being forced to attend useless conferences on weekends.

This statement is inaccurate and does not reflect the true picture.  It is absolutely incorrect and vague statement without reference to any names.

Even a few faculty members who have left for higher studies or other professional pursuits have had good things to say about JGU’s policies.

Current faculty members can vouch for their academic freedom and high quality intellectually-stimulating conferences.

We have over 150 faculty members of which over 100 of them are in JGLS. There are over 20 international faculty members from around the world who are working at JGU. Our university recruits faculty members among the graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Columbia, JNU and many other great universities in India and around the world. Such silly and irresponsible statements are not worth commenting upon when you have the facts at your disposal that are contrary to these statements. Our university is deeply committed to ensuring academic freedom, intellectual liberty, and research excellence. One of the reasons for we continuing to attract the brightest individuals from India and around the world to be a faculty member at JGU is not only because of our competitive salaries, but are extremely generous and liberal policies for faculty members. We have staff development grants; research grants, research excellence awards, teaching excellence awards, summer and winter leave policies and many other attractive policies and schemes for the benefit of the faculty members.

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Student – Faulty bonding outside campus is discouraged, and they are asked to take permission for the simplest of things. The repressive environment at JGLS does not leave much option to students as they are stuck here but most of the good faculties leave the university as soon as their bond is over. If one is to file an RTI he will find that attrition rate at JGLS is worse than many of the law firms and IT companies in India!

This statement is inaccurate and does not reflect the true picture.  Student-faculty bonding is always encouraged and is cherished in JGU. JGU does not believe in repression.

Far from attrition, JGU’s retention rate is an impressive success story. We continue to attract high caliber faculty members from across the world. These statements are made with no link to the facts in the ground. We have a fantastic faculty retention rate and that is because of how we treat our faculty members. All you need to do is to go to our website and see who our faculty members are. Professors who have spent their life time at Harvard and Stanford are teaching at Jindal. People with outstanding qualifications and experiences from around the world in the leading universities and law schools are teaching in a full time capacity with Jindal. These statements made by the concerned person are completely false and does not reflect the reality. They are made with a malafide intention to defame the institution.

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Repressive Policies – JGLS is one of the most repressive campus in India. Having been to various fest at various other law schools, I can say for a fact that no other law school has policies as repressive as JGLS.  Students till their 3rd year are compelled to take a gate pass for which their parents are called, this may be justified on the ground that it is for security reasons but what is perplexing is that libraries at JGU are not available 24x7 and one cannot stay in the academic block if one wishes to do so till late night as all students are expected to be in their hostels by 12:00 AM. Similarly, one needs permission for everything, be it using his/her own classroom or be it putting up a tiny food stall or doing anything new that might make minimal or incidental use of university's infrastructure. The process to get permission is more difficult than getting things done at a governmental department, you have to send mails to student dean initiative, then to a faculty who is willing to be in-charge for whatever you intend to do, then to some administrative staff and so on.

This statement is inaccurate and does not reflect the real picture. There is a gate pass policy which is published in the Student Handbook. Students can remain in the academic block till 1 am and are expected to be back in their hostels by 1 am.

Everything is done as per Policy. Various approvals are given in a timely manner.

The very fact that JGU funded and allowed the following activities is a testimony of its liberal policies:

JGU annual sports fest, Magnus 2013, Magnus 2014, and Magnus 2015. JGU’s cultural fest, Biswamil 2014.  Biswamil 2015; several editions of band music festival Xion, Cultural Night, Ethnic Night,  Camus Theatre festival and Bollywood Night. This is a non-exhaustive list of many such activities supported by JGU administration throughout the year.

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As a matter of fact, if you even want to mass mail to student community at large using university's mail system that is also censored and more often than not if it’s an urgent mail it will be approved hours later when it need to reach.

Mass mails are subject to Mail Moderation Policy and as per global practices in vogue.

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JGLS is one of the most repressive campus in India. Having been to various fest at various other law schools, I can say for a fact that no other law school has policies as repressive as JGLS.  Students till their 3rd year are compelled to take a gate pass for which their parents are called, this may be justified on the ground that it is for security reasons but what is perplexing is that libraries at JGU are not available 24x7 and one cannot stay in the academic block if one wishes to do so till late night

JGU’s policies are based, among others, on consultations with parents who are key stakeholders and seek to protect best interests of students. We take our policies and approaches relating to safety, security and wellbeing of the students very seriously. We will have to balance freedom and responsibility. JGU is a fully residential community. We owe it to the parents and students who have trusted us as an institution to ensure their safety and security. We recognize that we are a university and have created a free and liberal environment on campus, but all these freedoms have to be exercised within the limits set by the rules and regulations of the campus.

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Kian, I hope you remember the story that you did of a professor trying to do a roast at JGU, while he was not allowed to conduct the roast as expected despite the VC's statement on your website that he is all in favor of freedom of speech […]

This statement is inaccurate and does not reflect the true picture and is completely false.

Members of JGU community enjoy their freedom of speech.

It may not be appropriate to comment on individual faculty members’ decision about joining or leaving JGU. All we can say is that these are personal decisions of the faculty members and it won’t be appropriate for us to comment on them.

Updated with statement from former Jindal professor Abhishek Sudhir: “The JGU roast was conducted on March 12, 2014 in front of a student audience numbering more than 200. It was done as part of the World Kidney Week celebrations on campus and I did not seek the prior permission of the administration to conduct it. Nevertheless, I faced no consequences for conducting the Roast. My departure from the University had nothing to do with the Roast. Yes there were run-ins with the administration as I was quite vocal about several issues, but at the end of the day, the decision to part ways was mutual. I have moved on to bigger and better things- I have founded a startup (Sudhir Law Review) and continue to work for JGLS as an external consultant on the UGC E-Pathshala Project.”

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However, we have the same gymnasium of the same size that was used by the first batch, and a common room (place to chill out by students) one fourth the original size.

We have already discussed this matter before. JGU has world class facilities that are unmatched in size and scope to any Law School in the whole of South Asia. Several facilities have been built over the years. Every year, we add new facilities. 2 new mini gyms are being created in hostels and will be ready in the course of next 4 weeks. A food village has been created  besides a music room. One more non-veg food village is expected to be operational by mid-July 2015. There is a continuous improvement of physical infrastructure. (See also response at Sr. No. 6 above)

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Lack of classrooms

There are over 40 class rooms and they take care of current and future requirements.

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