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The only way to come out of misery is leverage!!
Use it and kill it :)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/husain-aanis-khan-58b232136_legaleducation-diversity-access-activity-7013930979027259393-fdrj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
The recent fee hike at the premier institution of legal education, National Law University, Delhi from ₹163,000 to ₹365,000 will only make high quality legl education more exclusive for those who get excluded on the basis of their financial status. Just another example of how access is traded off for quality. This patter of exclusion exists across the NLUs and has been document by Jamia and NLSIU diversity studies.
The numbers are remarkable: at Jamia half of the entire student body at 49.9% had a family income of less than ₹50,000 per month. Such students at the NLSIU were less than even half of that at 18.9%. Students with a high family income of more than ₹300,000 per month were a mere 2.54% at Jamia. But, almost 6 times more at NLSIU at 14.86%. Those with an income of more than ₹100,000 per month were 21% at Jamia and NLSIU 53.09%. Students with annual family income of less than ₹25000 per month were 6.55% and 4.5 times more at the NLSIU at 29.9%.
Source 1: Husain Aanis Khan, Inclusivity and Diversity in Minority Central University (2020)
https://lnkd.in/g_XbPgWx
Source 2: Chirayu Jain, et al, The Elusive Island of Excellence - A Study on Student Demographics, Accessibility and Inclusivity at National Law School 2015-16 (2018)
https://lnkd.in/dN59yrgQ
That's one of the issues that Madhava Menon had though: if you have high fees, less well-off graduates will have few options OTHER than the corporate and law firm sector to recoup these loans, and NLS was founded in order to also feed other parts of the legal ecosystem. But arguably that ship has already sailed, even without a fee hike.
>In the worst case, just post on social media and you will immediately get help from senior lawyers and law firms.
Is that really true / does that really work?
If you are really struggling financially, just take a loan, simple. You can walk into any top law firm and pay back the loan very easily. In the worst case, just post on social media and you will immediately get help from senior lawyers and law firms.
NLS now has extensive financial aid for students. It also covers loan repayments. Check out the link that I have posted.