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Seems like a business company rather than a public university.
1. For general category students: Charge the whole amount
2. For SC/ST/OBC students: Full waiver
3. For EWS students who are not SC/ST/OBC: 50% waiver.
once one reaches NLS, their caste doesn't play a role in making them sit and study. Your caste can only give you an easy entry to NLS but not make you pass exams in the uni. ▮▮▮
Eg they pay the subscriptions for epw, scc and manupartra
B) In the sense of waiver of fees, wouldn't it be necessary for a person of EWS status coming from a general caste as much as for one of the backward castes?
All in all, aren't you profiling the general caste or its population as rich, wealthy and coming from a background of privilege?
Please look at the real India beyond Nivedita Menon, honey.
Simple, easy and fair solution.
In the best law school in the country - to say you need remedial classes would itself be a sad state of affairs.
Hopefully now NLSIU will see some sense and institute a policy where SC/ST students are not made to pay fees for dropping a year. They should additionally be given extra coaching to help them pass. A 5 mark concession in the pass mark can also been given, or perhaps an open book exam model. You expect someone with 3,000 years of poverty and psychological trauma to pass exams meant for privileged elites?
The exams aren’t meant for privileged elites - they’re not asking you to recite the vedas or asking you to sail yachts. They’re asking you questions about materials they have spent a semester teaching you. Just study, pay attention in class, take notes, study with friends, see what your class toppers do and copy them.
Honestly there’s laziness and then there’s something worse. This is something worse- law subjects are not hard - anyone with an IQ over hundred is well capable of learning the subjects - it’s not quantum physics you don’t need to be a genius- you just need to put in the work. It’s one thing to try and get every advantage you can - it’s another thing that’s actually evil - to use the death of a person or the horrors of the caste system - to try and get some petty advantage in academics.
If we give every dalit student in India a ten point advantage in every test they take - will the suicides stop ? Is that really your answer ? What a simple mind ! No one can possibly believe that is the answer- so you must be arguing for it disingenuously.
Honestly I fear for what this country is becoming when there are arguments like this that are made seriously. Yuck.
Yes, the suicides WILL stop if those 10 marks are the difference between pass and fail. If you just give SC/ST/OBC students the bare required pass mark instead of failing, that will make a huge difference. It will make them eligible for government jobs that have reservation, give them the stamp of an IIT grad etc. In doing so, given them pride and their whole community pride. It won't give them jobs with Tesla in Palo Alto, but that is not what they want and they are not competing with the GC toppers. Just make them pass, that's all.
The instructors job is to mark fairly- you either know the answer to the question posed or you don’t. It’s not to decide who is a suicide risk and give them free marks.
Any normally developed young person should be able to fail a couple of exams once in a while and take it in their stride and go on to improve themselves. That’s the point of examinations. That’s the whole point of academic life. If you’re not able to - you need better intervention than someone giving you marks you didn’t earn.
Look up Jason arday, look at what social promotion does. It only sets people up for greater and greater failures. People who lie to you aren’t being kind to you. An instructor who lies to you about your answer script or your readiness for job market isn’t being kind to you- they’re setting you up for greater failure because they value them feeling good in short term over you actually succeeeing long term.
1. Grace marks to SC/ST/OBC to help them pass
2. No resit fees for them
3. Have an exit tour if they can’t cope. IITs have already done this by allowing them to graduate with a BSc instead of BTech. Law schools can similarly allow a BA degree exit. The humanities credits are easiest to pass.