This is the beginning of the end. The rapidly declining internal standards at NLSIU have now been exacerbated, because the institute is becoming the rope in a tussle of partisan politickers. We might as well close the thing down and separate states linguistically, because the idea of a "National" law school is evidently dead.

I was surprised for far too long that reservation and politics could do nothing to NLS. Now it does! It is only in this country that mediocrity is ubiquitous enough to seek protection and perpetuation :sad:

Next thing you know the Khap Panchayat will be demanding reservation for Jats at Jindal law school. As a Calcuttan, I pray that the Bengal govt does not emulate Andhra, Karnataka, MP etc. Bengal has fortunately never been affected by the politics of casteism and regionalism (touchwood!) and I hope this will continue when the Trinamul takes over.

@3: And the Khap panchayat will also seek a resident member to ensure same gotra students are not going out.

this is an important topic shud be on the main page...ppl may not notice it

What timing!!!
For all I know my college is going downhill and I seriously hope that this PIL is not entertained especially when the wording of the Act says otherwise. And what is this bullshit about less than 10 percent from karnataka?? Might as well make it karnataka Law School. Next thing we know we will have a Kannada course to pass. Anyways, we have more than enough 'competent' Professors from Dharwad to enlighten us. I guess that is enough to make us 'd-Harvard' of the East.

God save NLS!!!

It's just a PIL. Hopefully, the Court won't decide to act on it. There is a statute, and the wording is clear. The rest is just nonsense.

I love this guy's argumentation

the best he could come up with was that 10% are localites, and hey, the only reason we have for asking for reservation is because NLIU and NALSAR (and a few more) have it? Priceless!! Someone should ask him as to whether he even has a real reason to put forth for asking for reservation.

It worries me a lot, when I read the comments above (9 og them). The people who wrote have for gotten that We as citizens of India are guarnteed some fundamental rights under the Constitution of India. I fail to understand why all these commentators are thinking about Khap Panchayats, mediocrity, etc. Indirectly they are saying that those great people who were members of the constitutenta assembly were also an embodiment of mediocrity. I feel that they all wish that the fundamntal rights be abolished, especially the right to equality.

@10
Respectfully, Sir or Ma'am, I think you're overreacting. When you create a specialised institution for national excellence, there is no logic to regional reservations. It just contributes to divisiveness within the country. Unlike reservations for OBCs, STs and SCs, such regional reservations have no real constitution or even social mandate behind them. When people take this position, it doesn't mean that they believe that all fundamental rights should be abolished. I'm not sure how that conclusion was arrived at.

I dont even think that conclusion is applicable. having regional reservations in a college like NLS which promotes country- wide competition for a few seats will be disastrous. This petition, I hope is not entertained and I truly hope such a preposterous step is not taken.. this is such bull shit. or next they'll say is have different national law schools for different states!

@ 10 :
With due respect, the concept of NLSs is to establish premier institutes for legal education. It could be compared to IIM of management or IITs of Engineering. Imagine if IIT madras has a quota for TN students or IIM-A for Gujrat!!!
It is true that NLS/NLU are created by the state government, but the whole competitive spirit of the college comes from the fact that people from all over the country study in it!! They fight it out and come here. Students from Hyderabad leave NALSAR for NLSIU!!!
There is no reason why Karnataka people should be given reservation in NLSIU. Are we underprivileged? Are we dull-heads who can't compete with students of other states? Are we incompetent? Can't we make it to the top without using "state quota" ? WE DO NOT NEED ANY POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION/UPLIFTMENT... Thank You.

Currently, about 10% of the students in NLSIU are from Karnataka, this when only Karnataka has only 5% of the Indian Population. Isn't that a good thing (for pro-karnataka people)?
While I would not like to extend my argument on questioning the concept of "reservation" itself; I would like to point out that in NLIU, Bhopal which has 82 seats, only 41 are offered to All India Candidates. The situation is worse if u are a general category student, there are less than 30 seats on offer!
So much for being 'National' huh?
The quality of NLSIU goes hand in hand with the diversity it has. Please do not kill it!!!
If every NLS were to have state quota than what about those states that have no National Law Universities? What about TN or Himachal Pradesh for instance? Why is that they do not have a home-state NLS? Why are they at a disadvantage when compared to those who incidentally happen to have one in their state? Where is your "right to equality" then?


Disgusted that this PIL has been admitted!
-Born & brought up in Bangalore, Made it to NLSIU without a need for quota!!!

For whoever said that there are less than 10% of Karnataka students in NLS, let me inform you that there are 14 students out of 76 or 77 that is more than 10%. By including this state quota the competitive spirit will be dampened and standards will go down abysmally. I totally second #13 people from all over the country fight and come here. And there are those who don't put the same efforts and want "STATE QUOTA" to get into NLS rather than proving themselves in CLAT. This state quota is a reservation within reservation and shouldn't be entertained.And this PIL should not be entertained.