NLSIU Bangalore law graduate Jeydev CS has come fifth place in the prestigious and notoriously competitive Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services Examination 2019, according to Bar & Bench on Twitter.
The strong showing from at least one lawyer (though there are likely to be more) mirrors that of last year, when NLU Delhi's Vaishali Singh came eighth alongside ranks of at least 12 others.
Jaydev is a 2018 graduate of NLSIU Bangalore, where he had been a successful quizzer [correction: and also debater, though that specific link was not to a debate] and mooter, having been part of the team that won the international Henry Dunant moot in 2015.
If there are any other law graduates or lawyers who have scored highly in the UPSC exams, please do share in the comments.
The full list is available here.
Updates, thanks to commenters:
- 35: Kanchan Singhla, from NLU Delhi, according to the Tribune (thanks to the commenter who confirmed!).
- 140 Karshi Jain, 2016 NLU Jodhpur.
- 189: Sonakshi Saxena of 2016 NLSIU.
- 253: Saloni Jain, 2016 NLU Delhi.
(Correction: the 51st rank is not from NLIU Bhopal)
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As far as the reason of our backwardness is concerned, why not look at it in an intersectional manner? Political executive, permanent executive, legislators, and even judges and advocates are in part responsible for the state of the nation, whether good or bad.
Now that should not in any way deter amazingly bright students from law schools to enter public services instead of law firms. Law school caters to diverse groups of people with varied aspirations and one cannot deny that civil services is a great platform. The public services is extremely under staffed and lacks good leadership whereas the corporates in India have consultants for every small thing i.e. they are overserved. Students should be encouraged to enter public services because let's face it, you can't change anything unless you get inside the muddy waters of bureaucracy and politics. Those who can do this, should do.
There is a lot more grey in bureaucracy than Law firms. While superceding/out of turn promotion is seen as a definite good thing in law firms, such promotions happen in bureaucracy too. But mostly such instances are discarded as favouritism (which is not always true). Also several IRS officers have time and agin been given compulsory retirement for incompetence. Just google them. The examples abound. Recently Hardik Shah (IAS 2010) was appointed as Private Secretary to the PM. Surely there must be several bureaucrats senior to him. Stop being a frog in the well.
Saloni Jain - AIR 253 (NLUD ‘16)
Basically, if you're from NLS then we just love complaining about you.
Civil service is the dream job anyone can ever have.
God Bless and remember....with great power comes great responsibility..!!
UPSC is not a single shot. It's practice and practice and practice, which lead to success. And that's why people even leave after an attempt and go for Judicial Services.
Deliberate miss? :(((
Especially for students in the law optional, which probably has the most enormous and substantial syllabus amongst all the optionals, the conceptual clarity about various kinds of laws can only come over time and that too with good faculty and a good peer group. This is something that is quite common to the top 4-5 law schools which have regularly produced UPSC toppers from almost every batch (atleast the student quality, by and large). While it finally comes down to the amount of effort and time that the individual puts into his/her prep, the basis for the direction of such effort comes from the experiences that the person has had over 5 years during and after graduation. You don't see the mid-tier NLUs producing UPSC toppers on a regular basis, do you?
Simply culling out one or two people every 3-4 years from local state universities that clear the exam with the law optional to say that the law school doesn't matter is quite a lousy analogy. The numbers do not even compare to the continuous results from the top NLUs. With that logic, I remember that a Rhodes scholar from not so long ago did his law from Nagpur University. Does that mean that Nagpur University's law department is on the same scale as NLS or any of the other NLUs which have produced international scholars on a regular basis? Cut the crap, please.
Ram Jakar rank, 605, RGNUL Patiala, (Batch of 2016)
1. NLSIU
2. NLUD
3. NALSAR
4. NUJS
5. GNLU
6. NLUJ
7. RGNUL
8. RMLNLU
9. NUALS
10. NLIU
The answer is:
None at all.
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