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2. Public Perception - engineers and doctors are treated highly in our country. The public perception is that if you're an engineer, you will survive anyhow. On the other most lawyers are considered to poor, in local courts lawyers behave like they are food stalls and they will do anything just to get a client.
3. Market Scope: An average engineer and doctor makes more money than an average lawyer. Most lawyers live a life of abject poverty.
4. Nepotism - Law specially litigation to an extent is like Bollywood. Major families run the buisness and it's pretty close for outsiders. If you're not from an affluent family your chances of making it big in the litigation world is almost nil. If I am parent I wouldn't want my child to choose such an unstable career.
5. Unaware/Not marketed - Major chunk of the population have no idea about CLAT or AILET. They don't know what are NLUs and what are their employment scope. On the other hand almost everyone knows about IITs or medical college.
6. Elitism - CLAT as an exam gives an upper edge to the rich and affluent. To nail CLAT your knowledge of English is paramount. To speak English well you need to be surrounded by people who are also English speakers or you must be from a school where English is the primary way communication. Children from middle class households do not get this privilege. Whereas, maths or science subjects are taught eveywhere and you don't need to be from an affluent background to understand maths.
There are many more reasons but these are some that come to my mind.
Source: have both in my family
It is really sad that such few students give CLAT. The number should at least be 10 times more. How can law as a career option be promoted more among middle class students? Will entry of foreign law firms, NLU nationalisation, establishment of Indian Judicial Service etc help?