The 2020 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) that ranks law schools has been postponed, as reported by the Hindustan Times.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development has, via the NIRF website (see screenshot above), postponed the announcement of the NIRF 2020 rankings. Not a surprise there in the age of Covid.
However, intriguingly, the announcement does not specify any further details:
The announcement of India Rankings 2020 is postponed until further notice due to COVID 19.
An awards party is certainly not a good idea right now; last year, the physical prize-giving ceremony had taken place on 8 April 2019.
It could also suggest that NIRF may in fact already have received all submissions and may have already (nearly?) finished its ranking, provided the virus did not also throw a spanner in those works.
For the more optimistic, it may very well be possible to hope that NIRF might still happen this year; but, as so many events these days, it may be a more virtual affair.
NIRF has potential
In 2019, NLSIU Bangalore, NLU Delhi and Nalsar Hyderabad had bagged the top NIRF spots, in this order:
- NLSIU Bangalore
- NLU Delhi
- Nalsar Hyderabad
- IIT Kharagpur
- NUJS Kolkata
- NLU Jodhpur
- SLS Pune
- Jamia Millia Islamia
- GNLU Gandhinagar
- RGNUL Patiala
- NLIU Bhopal
- Kalinga Inst. of Industrial Tech.
- ILI
- RMLNLU Lucknow
- BR Ambedkar College of Law
However, quite a few law colleges had not participated in the NIRF exercise and while the transparency in the data published was useful and laudable, some of the metrics were not impossible to game, nor were they necessarily easy to compare or access.
Also of longer term concern to NIRF watchers may be that in December 2019, the MHRD had suggested in an announcement that the Indian Rankings Society (IRS) might be doing a very similar thing to NIRF soon.
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NIRF is not perfect, but no one can question that NLSIU constantly does well because its students work hard. They made it to QS despite having barely 5% of the money that JGLS has and unhelpful admin. Ask yourself why the employers and foreign university professors that QS contacted ranked NLSIU but not other NLUs? You use words like "misogyny", "casteism". Have you even read the readings that your socio and pol science professors give you?
Now get back to your books!
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2. Using highly questionable, ignorant and homophobic slideshare material is not a mark of any sincere teacher. We only have your anonymous word to say that the material wasn't intended to be accepted on face value.
3. Some of the things mentioned in those material are completely baseless and not even a reflection of any opposite study. Any teacher who uses such stuff even for critiquing should have their standard and work culture questioned.
4. The university has kept mum about it so far.
5. You seem like an admin PR troll meant to do damage control.
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More than 150 alumni have petitioned the admin against the faculty and called her out for similar objectionable behaviour even from earlier. 7's comment stands exposed, there was no context and no further material was provided by the faculty to debunk this horrendous garbage. In fact, it is highly likely that 7 was either the faculty herself or her stooge/friend.
Kianbhai, look into this, no? Livelaw is already going for this. www.livelaw.in/news-updates/row-over-nlu-j-faculty-suggesting-study-materials-showing-homosexuality-as-disorder-155473
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