JSW is sponsoring the construction of 4 floors at New Academic Block, in the biggest grant ever given to the law school. They are also panning to sponsor a centre on Law and Technology.
I'm not sure what's the source of this number (45 cr) but even then, JSW donated the amount for a specific purpose, redevelopment of NAB and renaming it to JSW block and the research Centre. So the donee does not have much control over it.
I feel so as well. PhD students post 2022 have 0 funding here. UG and PG fees is high, we do need scholarships for students else it will keep being an elitist institution.
Let's say if Sajjan and Sangita Jindal had 20 crores to gift and they met with the following VCs: Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Srikrishna Deva Rao, GS Bajpai, Ishwar Bhat, NK Chakrabarti, S Shantakumar, SS Singh and Poonam Saxena. Now, which one of these VCs do you think would impress them the most? And which one of them would probably make the best pitch on how they would spend the money?
So let's get to the bottomline then: the smarter, the more erudite and the more credentialed VC you have, the better your NLU will do. It's a crying shame that some of our NLUs are stuck with VCs who don't even deserve to be headmasters of pathshalas. Some were thankfully removed after student protests, but many still remain.
Next time a VC vacancy opens up at an NLU, I hope the student bodies will actively work towards a merit-based appointment, as the NLSIU SBA did. The first step is a selection committee of eminent people, rather than lightweights and lackeys.
The next major vacancy will be at NUJS, in this year. I don't expect the students to do anything, not because they are lazy but because they are shrewd. They know that a merit-driven VC and faculty will spell the end of grade inflation.
VC has already got the extension. NKC will continue till the next VC is "found" and that will take forever following precedent and the absence of a SJA that matters.
Why put everything on students? What about "permanent" faculty and non-teaching staff, especially the ones who are "NLU and foreign educated"? NKC will eventually go (only to return as a Chair Prof) but will NUJS attract a decent pool of candidates for VC position? ▮▮▮
Ironies galore. Jindals made their initial fortune in Calcutta (like many other business families such as the Birlas, Mittals, Goenkas et al). And then they went away because Calcutta wanted "andolon, sangathan, paribartan" and other such stuff floating in a toxic alphabet soup.
Sangita Jindal is from a Calcutta and member of a prominent business family. Despite JSW's close links with the TMC, especially their much hyped investment in Salboni; Bangalore despite the water woes takes the cake.
Three states were approached for the NLS project, including WB then under the much hyped Jyoti Basu. While he kept thinking, CM Hegde from Bangalore swooped in. Rest is history.
It is not just about NKC/NUJS ▮▮▮ et al. Something is seriously wrong in the Wasteland. And we didn't even have a Fallout!
You have a point, but remember that NUJS flourished under Menon, Chimni and MP Singh, under a communist government. So it’s really the fault of Bhat, Talukdar, NKC and most of all Mamata and her goons. NKC invited Mamata as guest of honour at the convocation to curry favour with her and she used the platform to make a ▮▮▮ political speech with not one word about improving the college. Derek O’Brien similarly. In contrast, the finance minister of the communist government, Asim Dasgupta (a PhD from MIT) or the communist Speaker of the Indian Parliament (barrister Somnath Chatterjee) never gave political speeches at NUJS, just speeches on law and governance.
Gen Z should understand who the enemy is and fight the enemy.
This is not true! The Jindal family in Kolkata and the one in Haryana are unrelated!!! I have met Sangeeta Jindal from Kolkata, because her daughter was studying law at Oxford. She is not Sajjan Jindal's wife!
The few good teachers who still remain there have all given up, because in between NKC and the COVID batches, the place does not have any academic quality left. Whoever tries to create a culture of academic rigour and research quality is deemed a villain. Who wants that grief in their lives? What students want, they get.
The NAB will be called JSW Academic Block, as per the press release. The current name of NAB is Madhava Menon Academic Block. So, kind of renaming is there of course.
The Jindal family has given hundreds of crores to JGLS, but they have also donated to IIMA, ISB and now NLSIU. Nice of them to give to an NLU, given the trollish comments on LI (though, to be fair, they are probably not NLSIU students, because NLSIU students are not so insecure).
About the Jindal family, here is the family history:
BC Jindal, DP Jindal and OP Jindal were brothers. BC and DP made their money in Bengal/Kolkata and OP (dad of Naveen and Sajjan) in Haryana/Delhi. BC and DP’s descendants still operate from Bengal and live in Kolkata but their business is obviously much smaller than that of OP’s branch of the family. While a part of this is because of the decline in Bengal, it’s also true that OP and his kids donated heavily to the Congress and were helped by successive Congress governments. The gap became larger because of this. Of course, now they have shifted to the BJP.
Interesting times ahead.
https://indianexpress.com/article/education/nlsiu-announces-jsw-grant-for-redevelopment-of-new-academic-block-9265826/
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/education/nlsiu-gets-jsw-grant-aims-to-expand-student-intake-by-nearly-350-pc/articleshow/109241391.cms?from=mdr
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/nlsiu-announces-grant-from-jsw-group-for-research-centre-redevelopment-and-expansion-of-academic-block/article68057578.ece
So let's get to the bottomline then: the smarter, the more erudite and the more credentialed VC you have, the better your NLU will do. It's a crying shame that some of our NLUs are stuck with VCs who don't even deserve to be headmasters of pathshalas. Some were thankfully removed after student protests, but many still remain.
Next time a VC vacancy opens up at an NLU, I hope the student bodies will actively work towards a merit-based appointment, as the NLSIU SBA did. The first step is a selection committee of eminent people, rather than lightweights and lackeys.
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Sangita Jindal is from a Calcutta and member of a prominent business family. Despite JSW's close links with the TMC, especially their much hyped investment in Salboni; Bangalore despite the water woes takes the cake.
Three states were approached for the NLS project, including WB then under the much hyped Jyoti Basu. While he kept thinking, CM Hegde from Bangalore swooped in. Rest is history.
It is not just about NKC/NUJS ▮▮▮ et al. Something is seriously wrong in the Wasteland. And we didn't even have a Fallout!
Gen Z should understand who the enemy is and fight the enemy.
1000+ kids in a batch. No jobs for anyone.
BC Jindal, DP Jindal and OP Jindal were brothers. BC and DP made their money in Bengal/Kolkata and OP (dad of Naveen and Sajjan) in Haryana/Delhi. BC and DP’s descendants still operate from Bengal and live in Kolkata but their business is obviously much smaller than that of OP’s branch of the family. While a part of this is because of the decline in Bengal, it’s also true that OP and his kids donated heavily to the Congress and were helped by successive Congress governments. The gap became larger because of this. Of course, now they have shifted to the BJP.