https://news.careers360.com/bci-will-consider-holding-clat-in-regional-languages-law-ministry-tells-rajya-sabha

This is a huge step for inclusivity, one might say, and would actually lead to students interesting in practising in district courts joining NLUs.

Just one question. The medium of instruction in all NLUs is English, along with the literature used. How are the students who are not sufficiently comfortable with the language to give an MCQ exam in it, supposed to cope with that from day one after joining an NLU? This is just going to create further divisiveness and classism inside NLUs. If the goal is to reduce dependency on English for lawyers, it should start from the court structure first, then sufficient infra and literature should be created for vernacular languages and only then would this move make sense.

commendable step but it is not enough. If you are allowing regional students to appear in CLAT and take admission in NLU, then sufficient changes need to be incorporated in the education being imparted wrt the medium of education. Several of my batchmates from small towns who cleared CLAT through hard work found it difficult to excel due to their lack of proficiency in reading and especially speaking English. These situations are hard to navigate and once a few students got discouraged due to subpar performances in moots they never really took those chances again.

This will ruin quality of nlu students