DSNLU Vizag

The students of DSNLU Visakhapatnam (or Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University Visakhapatnam to give its full name), have for the first time ever released their final recruitment statistics.

A DSNLU Vizag student has drafted a bill to provide for Institute of National Importance (INI) status to national law universities (NLUs), to bring the NLUs under central funding and supervision.

Post some heavy duty performance by the Indian Universities at Stetson and Vis East last week, here’s some desi dose of mooting for our moot court aficionados as we cover the elite Bar Council of India moot 2017 and the newly added NLUO Maritime Arbitration Moot 2017.

Despite our last mega-mooting weekend update on Monday, recent mooting action is not yet over.

Prof NR Madhava Menon supported the plan to segregate law courses in India into academic courses and professional courses, and suggested the ways in which to achieve this division and other improvements in the current design of Indian legal education.

DSNLU Visakhapatnam’s vice chancellor (VC) Prof RG Babu Bhagavath Kumar has exited from his post to make way for a new VC, after the order renewing his term was cancelled. A fresh VC search committee will now be formed.

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) founding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was publicly disclosed by HNLU Raipur in 2012, three years before CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow claimed exemption under Right to Information (RTI) for the same MoU.

All Indian national law universities (NLU) except NLU Delhi are now entitled to conduct the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) by rotation every year, according to the terms of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by 16 NLUs on Saturday.

The Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University (DSNLU) Vizag in Vishakhapatnam is Rs 40 crore behind on the minimum funds required to set up its own campus. It is currently operating from a 20,000 square feet rented building for its 460 students, who are housed in private hostels across Vizag without any transport facilities, reported the Times of India last week.

These are the third rented premises from which the university is operating but unless it manages to get its infrastructure in place it will not receive central funding.

The authorities have requested the state government to release Rs 20 crore by the end of this academic year, however out of the Rs 10 crore sanctioned to it last year the state had released only Rs 5 crore.