And what will they do after joining law school, pray tell? Overnight the medium of instruction will change, as will the language of everything that they will have to study or write in. Or are you suggesting that law schools should now offer classes in all the languages of this country?
Knowing that BCI opposed same-sex marriage legalization by the SC, it isn't woke by any means. They're mostly controlled by BJP loyalists. What they're doing is simply a right-wing populist move to undermine English.
Populism is done by both the left and the right, but for way too many on LI, anything that they don't like is socialism. Myself a capitalist (libertarian) but so tired to see socialist / communist labels being thrown around everywhere. This is simply not the way to "combat socialism"
Instead some independent body should conduct clat with reduced fees and inclusion of regional language would increase diversity, lastly it would be upon student that in law school whether they can study or not. Everyone should be given equal access afterwards if they canot survive ecosystem then its on them also lawschool can introduce english classes for them. All the classist argument that legal education is in english, they should understand that competency for fighting cases and building legal prowess is not only on English it is upon understanding core law issued, findin solution and solving problems even though interpretation of law require English but if whole system create a language barrier exclusion than god save this profession. Whereas, CJi is into converting judgement in all official languages. Here all the comments are just against the people who are not from not so good English background
This is not at all a socialist move. It's a populist move. Don't confuse between the two. Socialism would have required policies wherein regardless of your economic background, you can get the same quality of education as someone more privileged, so this entire question of holding exams in multiple languages wouldn't have arisen at all. It does because we failed in being a socialist country, rather followed crony capitalism which has resulted in quality education being monopolised by private institutions in the school level, thus causing these problems. However, politicians still need the votes of the deprived, hence they are using these short term policies like bandaid.
Totally bullshit idea. Why should law schools bear the burden of giving an education to those who don’t know English? Why are IIMs, IITs and NIFT not being asked to do so? Just fed up with this socialist bullshit! 😡
People who are celebrating are nuts! The CLAT Consortium has flaws but the BCI is 10 times worse! Also, we CANNOT have CLAT in regional languages. The course is in ENGLISH ffs!!!!!
Not really! I'll support drafting of laws and legal books in easier language but not in different languages. It will ultimately lead to confusion and more litigation as there are things that get missed in the process of translation!
Giving everyone equal opportunity is not wokism, you clown. The problem is people with elitist mindset like you.
Exam should be conducted in as many languages as possible so people belonging to different regions can join law schools.
Consortium should not charge the hefty amount they charge anyway, MHCET with a quarter of fee is conducting the exam without any problems and in a much better way.
The fact that they didn't even reduce the fee even after being aware that it is stopping people from appearing for exam just means they are greedy people and don't deserve to be incharge of it.
also speaking in english despite what you believe is not a proof of merit. How many district and subordinate courts function in english? this is where 95% of advocates and judges work.
Government institutes are meant for everyone, if you want to live in a bubble, where people roam around with macbooks, sipping starbucks and discussing indie english music you're welcome to join Jindal
Manan Mishra wants BCI to conduct CLAT, taking away power of NLU Consortium
Not only that, he wants the exam in regional languages too. So basically whatever little money NLUs make from CLAT exam fees will now go to the BCI. Plus, you will potentially have people who crack the exam in Hindi with zero knowledge of English studying alongside those who crack the CLAT in English, reading the likes of Dworkin, Holmes, Salmond etc. 🙄
This is the problem with populism, anti-meritocracy and anti-elitism. We are headed towards disaster. Not everything should be mass and crass. The DM says that Hinduism and Sanatana Dharma are like dengue and should be eradicated. No honey, it's wokeism that is the real dengue.
By highlighting the fact that the Consortium of NLUs is not a statutory body, it appears BCI is indirectly questioning the legality of the consortium even conducting the CLAT.
It's good if BCI conducts the exam and mandates all colleges to admit students based on the CLAT scores. However, I just have one concern with holding the exam in regional language which is that the ones who get good scores in the regional languages may struggle to understand the legal or BA concepts which would be taught in tough English. This may lead to greater number of people dropping out after taking admission or people suffering after taking admission.
Mere agreement won’t be the deciding factor in clat 2024.
There will be several stakeholders to hold the exam from the 2025 exam. Maybe we can see the consortium itself offering to hold it in different languages. But for now the 2024 exam will be held in English
Exam should be conducted in as many languages as possible so people belonging to different regions can join law schools.
Consortium should not charge the hefty amount they charge anyway, MHCET with a quarter of fee is conducting the exam without any problems and in a much better way.
The fact that they didn't even reduce the fee even after being aware that it is stopping people from appearing for exam just means they are greedy people and don't deserve to be incharge of it.
also speaking in english despite what you believe is not a proof of merit. How many district and subordinate courts function in english? this is where 95% of advocates and judges work.
Government institutes are meant for everyone, if you want to live in a bubble, where people roam around with macbooks, sipping starbucks and discussing indie english music you're welcome to join Jindal
Ab CLAT ki band bajao.
Not only that, he wants the exam in regional languages too. So basically whatever little money NLUs make from CLAT exam fees will now go to the BCI. Plus, you will potentially have people who crack the exam in Hindi with zero knowledge of English studying alongside those who crack the CLAT in English, reading the likes of Dworkin, Holmes, Salmond etc. 🙄
This is the problem with populism, anti-meritocracy and anti-elitism. We are headed towards disaster. Not everything should be mass and crass. The DM says that Hinduism and Sanatana Dharma are like dengue and should be eradicated. No honey, it's wokeism that is the real dengue.
https://www.barandbench.com/news/bci-offers-to-hold-clat-no-student-deprived-lack-of-english-proficiency
There will be several stakeholders to hold the exam from the 2025 exam. Maybe we can see the consortium itself offering to hold it in different languages. But for now the 2024 exam will be held in English
https://www.barandbench.com/news/bci-offers-to-hold-clat-no-student-deprived-lack-of-english-proficiency
Expect changes in the CLAT 2024 itself, since GoI has already agreed for CLAT to be held in multiple languages.