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P.S. Gen Y GNLU alumni would like to dissociate themselves from the spoilt kids in the present generation.
You're being detained because admin didn't show up to classes or you didn't? Too busy with garba organisation it seems. You were required to submit keys before you left, and you did not (while many kids did).
How is any of this the NLUs fault? You guys should move to NLUJ or NUJS and see what actual tyranny is. GNLU has made you too soft
Were you held back arbitrarily? Sounds like you didn't have enough attendance! If 50 kids fall short, the requirement should be waived?
Why would you not submit your keys to the hostel, this is a standard routine process followed around the country. That is government property, not a leased apartment.
When we joined in the first year, our batch had three separate divisions because the class strength supported it. Today, two divisions are merged, and even then the classroom is not full. Even in the middle of the semester, when one would expect attendance to stabilise, the situation was no different. Instead of accepting responsibility for their lack of discipline, many students are shifting the blame onto the administration.
As someone who regularly attended classes and made an effort to ensure I met the attendance requirements, it was disheartening to see students with almost negligible attendance earlier face no consequences. In that sense, the administration’s decision to finally enforce norms is fair and long overdue.
However, the email regarding breaking locks was unacceptable. Such actions should not occur under any circumstance. The administration must ensure sufficient security and proper procedures so that students’ belongings are not put at risk.
To begin with, the idea that the administration has the right to monitor students’ personal lives whether they play games at midnight, watch movies, or choose how to unwind, is profoundly misplaced. GNLU is not a school. It is a residential university where students spend half a decade of their lives transitioning into adulthood. Expecting them to adhere to hostel curfews and moral policing reminiscent of high school undermines the entire ethos of higher education. Students here come from diverse cultural, social, and economic backgrounds. They do not need to be parented by the administration.
If we are to talk about discipline, then integrity and fairness must cut both ways. This past semester saw an unprecedented number of students, sometimes 60 to 70 per subject, barred from writing exams due to alleged attendance shortages. Many of these restrictions were based on rules that were either unwritten or applied inconsistently. Several faculty members mark students subjectively, reward personal favourites, or penalise those who express dissent. In some cases, professors who lack expertise in the assigned subject are made to teach it anyway, leading to poor engagement and absenteeism. In contrast, good teachers never struggle with attendance; their classes are naturally full because they teach with sincerity and respect.
The administration’s role should be to create an environment where students want to learn, not one where they are coerced through fear or punishment. When university leadership cannot even issue a clear, confident statement assuring 24-hour medical facilities, because there are none, it has no moral ground to preach discipline. Ironically, even as it fails on such essentials, the same administration takes pride in record placement numbers. But should the purpose of an entire legal education be reduced to placements alone? The real measure of an institution is how it treats all its students, not just the few who secure corporate jobs or pre-placement offers.
The recent hostel controversy is another example of misplaced priorities. The Chief Faculty Warden’s threat to “break locks” on rooms for the purpose of “asset numbering” is not just unnecessarily aggressive, it reveals a complete lack of trust between the administration and the student body. Many students have already reported missing items, broken belongings, and trashed rooms after handing over keys in previous semesters. The problem is not the request for keys, it is the tone of threat and the absence of accountability. An administration that raids hostels at the smallest inconvenience, encourages snitches, and violates privacy cannot hope to foster mutual respect.
Equally troubling is the dismissive attitude toward mental health. To suggest that stress or burnout is an “excuse” is both ignorant and cruel. Students today face enormous pressure, academic performance, internships, placements, and the growing uncertainty of the job market. For many, extracurricular activities like sports, cultural events, or even late-night recreation are essential outlets for mental balance. Yet, instead of recognising this reality, the administration has repeatedly responded with threats, event cancellations, and disciplinary notices.
Ultimately, discipline without empathy is tyranny. A law university should model fairness, justice, and dialogue. The very values it claims to teach. What GNLU needs is not more surveillance, but more trust, not stricter punishments, but more transparency, more regulation that helps students, not fear, but genuine engagement between students and faculty. If the administration expects respect, it must first show it.
Until then, no amount of curfews, lock-breaking threats, or attendance crackdowns will restore the university’s credibility. The students of GNLU are not demanding anarchy, they are demanding dignity, fairness, and the right to live as adults within a university that claims to produce future lawyers, not obedient schoolchildren.
Also, why is the issue of hostel theft being brought in here? That has no relevance. In any case, there have been instances of kleptomania and downright stealing by students.
The saga doesn’t end here where even to go out to the hospital at night there’s a whole procedure with filling an out pass that the girls warden are always doubtful whether we’re genuely sick or faking it.
Further the ambulance delays had caused issues for so many students with illnesses being exacerbated due to their incompetence. Sad that an institute with the best placements needs students to protest for basic decent living conditions
Wanna go out? Sign a laughable digital outpass and then sign a physical outpass and deposit them with the wardens at guards outside the gate? So much redtape for what?
Fix the plumping in the girls hostel maybe? No. Fix the water coolers? No. Fix the laundry maybe? No.
This breaking open locks is the last and final straw. The administration must realise how comical they look to anyone with have half a brain and stop monkeying around and making a fool of themselves.
2. Don't keep your valuable stuff while handing over keys to someone. You are responsible for your own stuff.
3. Do you know NLS students have a 3 day window to submit your keys after the trimester ends and then take it back after it begins. If they fail to do it on time, they get hefty fines.
Thus, grow up please.
But this past sem, things have gotten so much worse. Students have been actively calling out faculty and admin for overstepping (HISTORIC number of students weren't allowed to write exams due to attendance shortage btw, I'm sure some of y'all saw that the matter went to the Gujarat HC on an urgent basis- almost 60-70 students per subject). The admin have been literally making up rules that aren't written anywhere and are def not standard practice.
To shut down all these complaints and accusations against the admin and faculty body, the new chief Faculty Warden has just sent out this super aggressive email threatening to BREAK THE LOCKS on hostel rooms if residents haven't submitted their keys. Their excuse? "Asset numbering." That's not something that needs to happen during semester breaks, and let's be so real rn- the admin has never gotten anything done during breaks in the hostels, not even barebones maintenance.
The best part, you ask? Students have already had valuable stuff go missing from their rooms after handing over keys to hostel authorities: trashed rooms, missing cash, stolen items, and guess what...still ZERO accountability from the admin. Anyone who wants maintenance already submits their keys out of their own will.
This is another new and unsurprising low in GNLU's recent history, and feels like another way to make student life harder on campus, that's already seen some of the worst incidents amongst NLUs and law schools in general.