Upping the ante, a Bangalore-based association of advocates is lobbying the state law minister for NLSIU Bengaluru to have a 50% domicile quota, rather than the 25% that the cabinet has recently signed off on.
According to the letter ( full copy here), as published by Livelaw, this is not the first time the Advocate’s Association of Bengaluru has gotten involved in the issue.
In 2018, when the bill planning a 50% reservation had been rejected by the state governor, the association had made two representations to the governor, it said.
The association described the most recent reduction in the reservation from 50 to 25% as “shocking”, noting:
So, naturally, the association has requested for the reservation to be upped to 50% again.
Not many further arguments are made in the three-page letter besides the repeated expression of shock and reiteration of the demand but as a gambit to ensure at least the 25% reservation passes without major hitches, this could be a solid strategic play.
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LI, Livelaw and BB are just reproducing reports from mainstream media outlets. I hope one of these sites will do a story interviewing at least 5 to 10 Senior Advocates and retired SC judges.
Or will it try to guarantee at just 25%, like Kian said?
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/uncertainty-dogs-bill-to-reserve-25-seats-at-nlsiu/articleshow/73129005.cms
I'm not naive enough to believe that "merit" is absolute- my parents, my school, my social circle at school, they all had a role to play in my entrance exam scores.
There's a larger social intent behind reservations, and if that puts more disenfranchised groups into positions that were earlier the preserve of the urban Elite School crowd, I'm fully behind that. I don't see it as "wasting a seat"- if you reserve 18 seats, and even if 9-10 of them graduate and get a boost into "normal" Indian society, I'd see that as 18 seats well spent.
NLS is not just a feeder school for the private sector- there are people in academics, grassroots litigation, NGOs, journalism, and lots of other occupations that try and make this country a better place to live in. I like it that way, thank you very much.
#KeepNLSNational
The OBC reservation law made by Parliament mandating 27% (made in the 2000s) applies only to central institutions, not state ones. This is one of the reasons why the Lolaksha case is not being appealed very vigorously by Law School. The status quo tries to balance these risks. As a matter of policy, the EC/GC of Law School has decided to only have SC and ST reservations. Its a policy decision, and not illegal in any way. There is no right to reservations.
Sudhir might harp about social equity at his NGO, but he's not been made VC to push through that agenda. Rather, he should answer to all stakeholders.
In any case, afaik, Sudhir's activism with CLPR had nothing to do with OBC issues - it was mostly transgenders and SC/STs. So I don't see any fraud here.
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7. Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar
8. The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
9. Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, Delhi
10. Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala
11. National Law Institute University, Bhopal
12. Chanakya National Law University, Patna
13. Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur
14. Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow
15. Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai
16. National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi
17. Symbiosis Law School, Pune
18. National Law University, Cuttack
19. Army Institute of Law, Mohali
20. Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
21. Indian Law Institute, New Delhi
22. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
23. South Asian University, New Delhi
24. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
25. National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi
26. Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
27. Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla
28. School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore
29. The Tamilnadu Dr Ambedkar Law University, Chennai
30. Government Law College, Mumbai
31. Azim Premji University, Bangalore
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“This position will allow the University to take new academic measures, including developing new institutions in the fields where we’re lagging behind”, said DU VC Yogesh Tyagi, in a letter to alumni.
To match the government’s grant with the university’s own initiative of raising Rs 1,000 crore, DU will launch ‘The Endowment Fund of the University of Delhi’, he further added.
duexpress.in/university-of-delhi-receives-institution-of-eminence-status/
thewire.in/education/caa-protests-swapan-dasgupta-visva-bharati
The crazy thing about the Right is that they love dishing it out, but sure can't take it. They'll happily support putting people in jail for expressing dissent and implicitly/explicitly condone riots by their own (even when it leads to serious injuries and death), but then cry mummy whenever anyone so much as looks at them askance or is mean to them or tells them their views are wrong, racist or in line with fascism.
Nevertheless, even idiots/intellectuals like SD should be allowed their say. But peaceful protests against those views are equally democratic and allowed, but encouraging that protests to turn violent has also been part of the playbook of many radical fringe parties like the ABVP in order to delegitimise them.
Both politics and principles would have been better advanced had the govt brought in a proper refugee law something that Rajeev Dhawan spoke about. Of course we can quibble over the details but its a better approach than this dog whistle law.
As a saffron sympathizer (more like someone badly bruised by the Left in the past and dealt unkindly by the Hand) he is expected to downplay stuff that are inconvenient to the party line. Noting that reality, SD is not entirely off the rails here www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/misplaced-concerns/cid/1734084?ref=opinion_home-template
Talking of Hand, what about the Hand of Messiah? Why focus all scrutiny on Messiah?
Why is LI not reporting this??? This website is totally anti-GNLU because of an old grudge.
www.barandbench.com/news/duty-of-the-judiciary-to-ensure-that-faith-of-the-people-is-not-shaken-justice-mr-shah-at-gnlu-lecture
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/nujs-student-group-takes-back-guv-invite/articleshow/73179463.cms
www.opindia.com/2020/01/jagdeep-dhankar-kolkata-nujs-uninvite-event-mun-society/
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/derek-at-nujs-event-students-divided-over-guv-uninvite-move/articleshow/73195909.cms
www.opindia.com/2020/01/njus-mun-derek-obrien-caa-nrc-governor-uninvite-students-unhappy/
sja.nujs.edu/newsroom/2020/01/11/response-to-the-times-of-india
OpIndia is of course going to put in a slant. But it adds some material that TOI didn't have or left out. Also what does the SJA thing even mean? The VC says he was in the dark. Others in the administration also don't known anything. Is this even possible? What about the Faculty member in charge of MUN Society?
I totally agree CAA/NRC are big issues. But wouldn't it have been better to request the Governor to desist from making a political speech and if he did then publicly but politely (and firmly) remind him or even interrupt him? And he is replaced by DOB?
The colour doesn't matter. Politics has seeped in. The downward spiral has begun.
I have no love for the Governor position as such and this Governor. I do think that MUN Society should have told him not to go political and if he had expressed reservations etc then they could have revoked the invite. And why this last minute cancellation?
Whether the Gov is incendiary or not, the way MUN Soc went about this and the admin seemingly a headless chicken shows the entire univ in very poor light. It doesn't help when there are strong rumours that as with "Bengali" as VC there is now a concerted attempt to have a "Bengali" student President.
Apparently a section of the faculty with tacit support from higher authorities wish to gain a degree of "control" over how the students can be rallied to sing political tunes. And we now see green shoots through MUN Soc machinations.
www.livelaw.in/news-updates/nlu-d-students-protest-against-wrongful-removal-of-housekeeping-staff-of-the-university-read-statement-151337
livelaw.in/news-updates/nlud-alumni-support-student-protests-against-unlawful-termination-of-housekeeping-staff-151558
Kian since you also missed this www.barandbench.com/news/lawschools/nlu-delhi-executive-council-approves-suspension-of-prof-js-mann-pending-inquiry-into-allegations-of-misconduct do you have the latest on JSM?
It is possible that JSM is settling scores. But if those are the skels in RS cupboards (among others) shouldn't the EC at least do some inquiry? Maybe RS and Co don't want any inquiries, especially when he is on his way out. Sure, PIB is comfortably ensconced in KSLU and he knows that his friends (in high places) here will ensure that the inquiries go nowhere. Still it remains a fact that he suffered back-to-back "memorable" exits from CNLU and NUJS and it is on record that EC initiated an inquiry against him, which despite the attempts of NKC & Co is still on.
RS had a smooth exit from NALSAR while VS got splattered. RVR too had a controversial exit and we shouldn't speculate (because SBA ordains so) why Messiah is doing an Obama here (check The Report on Amazon Prime). It really isn't too difficult to made educated guesses.
JSM may have started this out of personal bitterness. But if someone starts rifling the records, RS and other Gods will be deeply inconvenienced. The chain reaction will be unpredictable and difficult to control. And hence the clampdown.
www.deccanherald.com/state/karnataka-govt-eyes-bigger-pie-of-nlsiu-seats-for-local-students-798707.html
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