Because there are thousands of applicants who lack access to the technology and devices necessary to give such an exam.

The fact that the Jindal VC and senior faculty are going all over the news and saying how every competitive entrance exam should be made online in 2020, just like LSAT, goes on to show that they lack in knowledge about and empathy for the real India and the bulk of the country including applicants lacking access to such sophisticated technology and machines. Talk about ivory tower academics! Either they are more naive than they have got any right to be, or completely insensitive to the real country. I don't know what's worse!

"Access bullshit"? "100 students with no computer at home"? Are you for real? I would have said that I really hope you don't end up joining any law school, but the truth is that you are in sore need of education. The people who were in charge of your education so far in life have clearly done a sub-par job, which has led you to turn blind by privilege, completely lacking in empathy towards those less privileged, arrogant with a capital A, ignorant about anything outside your sphere of comfort, no doubt provided by people other than your own self. I shudder to think that the likes of you would probably rely on their privilege to actually become a decision maker some day in society. "Borrow old laptops", "refundable deposit of 5k", my god! This is beyond trolling, this is actually what happens when upbringing goes wrong.

For the benefit of others and not this troll, even a single organisation like IDIA trains more than 100 underprivileged CLAT aspirants every year, most of whom lack even two square meals a day, let alone computers, internet facility, necessary training to set up and go through such a crucial exam online. Just a single organisation, which caters to less than 1% of the aspirants in country. Think about that. Forget about aspirants, a large section of the current NLU students are facing problems handling assessments and exams online, even after having been better trained to handle technology. All of which are because of "access bullshit", as the troll so eloquently put. There should really be some form of IQ or educational qualifications for being able to comment, in the absence of which this place is really going to the dogs.

@Kian: Really? You know better than this. This is and would have been such a trigger to those who have been fighting for so long against even the existing access issues of CLAT, including the likes of Shamnad, had he still been alive!

Don't try to show yourself as a victim or belonging to marginal groups among your peer groups. You people get upset at the thought of losing status quo when students from marginalised groups somehow manage to study beside you and share the same classroom. Your entire argument is since CLAT already makes it difficult for certain sections, therefore there's no big deal if it's made even more difficult. With that kind of logic, your claim of studying at a tier one law school seems dubious. If your friends crib about accessibility issues while making ostentatious display of their wealth, then you should get better friends. And you would of course like to see yourself as the 'struggling' person here compared to your richie rich peers. But the fact that you've actually managed to secure a loan and study at the NLUs without your family going broke in the process still makes you more privileged than most. Thankfully, there are people who are currently trying to improve accessibility or fighting against authorities to do so, instead of whining like you. That's why the scene is at least improving a little bit, though not much. Otherwise you and your privileged and ultra privileged ilk would definitely like everyone else to shut up and toe your line. Guess what, we won't do that and we aren't going away either. If that causes discomfort to you, then you can cry us a river, nobody cares.