All eyes on the SC now. Will SC uphold Karnataka HC decision that only NLSIU is "national" and other CLAT schools like NALSAR, NUJS etc are "regional"?
To recap, the reasons given by the court (upholding the contentions of ASG and NLSIU alum Vikramjit Banerjee) were:
- BCI set up NLSIU, states set up other CLAT schools
- CJI is the VC of NLSIU, other CLAT schools have state CJs as VC (except a couple)
- NLSIU is world-renowned
- Name of the NLU. Even if we accept that WBNUJS and GNLU have CJI as VC, they have the name of the state in them. NLSIU was meant to cater to the whole country.
What will the SC say?? Also, curious that other NLUs are silent.
This has to be trolling. Buddy, NLS’s “national” status has been dead as a door nail since it implemented the domicile quota. Karnataka HC can claim pigs can fly or anything it likes, that doesn’t make it true. The judgement was clearly full of errors of interpretation of both the NLS statute and basic legislative powers.
It’s not a national level institution and it’s clearly a creature of the state legislature. Who will fund the place if the SC arbitrarily calls it national institute without Central government support? As much as I don’t want to see it happen, it looks like the university faces a risk of losing even more autonomy under the wrath of the state government.
Ugh this is so stupid. 1) this fight isn’t about “national” character of nls. Ashwath Narayan is clearly fighting because of a disagreement on how reservation should be implemented - your post has nothing to do with that.
2) clearly nls admin has agreed to domicile reservations . And I don’t think it’s a bad thing. If people of Karnataka pay for a school why shouldn’t their children study there ? Especially when other schools have domicile reservations also.
3) Ashwath Narayan is wrong. The agreement was a horizontal reservation. This is how horizontal reservations work. If all 25% seats are filled by locals who cracked the general list - that’s where the horizontal reservation should stop. I’m a kannadiga so I’m not even biased against the reservation.
4) what he wants is a vertical reservation- that would fly in the face of long standing constitutional judgments that argue you can’t reserve more than half the seats.
5) there’s widespread misinformation on this by politicos. Nls is a soft target. The university should do more to resolve this with trouble makers quickly or - in the alternarive- if you’re gonna go public really go public. Go on Tv and defend your reservation scheme which is properly done anyway.
Only NLU-J and NLU-D have any remaining national character. Only NLU-J actually, since NLU-D was more than happy to do domicile quotas whilst NLU-J has < 30% reservations and shows spine.
Some commenters here are stupid and have not read the article. This has EVERYTHING to do with the national character case pending before the SC. NLSIU has not changed their position. They have voluntarily implemented a quota and continue to stick with the national character contention in the SC.
All eyes on the SC now. Will SC uphold Karnataka HC decision that only NLSIU is "national" and other CLAT schools like NALSAR, NUJS etc are "regional"?
To recap, the reasons given by the court (upholding the contentions of ASG and NLSIU alum Vikramjit Banerjee) were:
- BCI set up NLSIU, states set up other CLAT schools
- CJI is the VC of NLSIU, other CLAT schools have state CJs as VC (except a couple)
- NLSIU is world-renowned
- Name of the NLU. Even if we accept that WBNUJS and GNLU have CJI as VC, they have the name of the state in them. NLSIU was meant to cater to the whole country.
What will the SC say?? Also, curious that other NLUs are silent.
It’s not a national level institution and it’s clearly a creature of the state legislature. Who will fund the place if the SC arbitrarily calls it national institute without Central government support? As much as I don’t want to see it happen, it looks like the university faces a risk of losing even more autonomy under the wrath of the state government.
2) clearly nls admin has agreed to domicile reservations . And I don’t think it’s a bad thing. If people of Karnataka pay for a school why shouldn’t their children study there ? Especially when other schools have domicile reservations also.
3) Ashwath Narayan is wrong. The agreement was a horizontal reservation. This is how horizontal reservations work. If all 25% seats are filled by locals who cracked the general list - that’s where the horizontal reservation should stop. I’m a kannadiga so I’m not even biased against the reservation.
4) what he wants is a vertical reservation- that would fly in the face of long standing constitutional judgments that argue you can’t reserve more than half the seats.
5) there’s widespread misinformation on this by politicos. Nls is a soft target. The university should do more to resolve this with trouble makers quickly or - in the alternarive- if you’re gonna go public really go public. Go on Tv and defend your reservation scheme which is properly done anyway.