Aspirants who had appeared for law entrance examinations to gain admission to the Delhi University’s Law Faculty are worried because of delay in admissions this year.
The varsity has been postponing counselling for first year LL.B. students since July 11. On July 21, it issued a circular saying that due to unavoidable circumstances, the session was being postponed.
The reason for the delay is said to be that the university has not been granted permission by the Bar Council of India to begin the admission process. The BCI is the authority that controls legal education in the country.
The university had put a proposal on shifting the three law centres — Law Centre-1, Campus Law Centre (CLC) and Law Centre-2 — to a new building in North Campus itself. The BCI has already conducted its inspection of the new building last week, but is yet to submit its report. The admissions will only begin after the BCI report is submitted.
Last year, a CLC student, Tarun Narang, had filed a petition in the Delhi high court against the decision to shift the three law centres to the new building due to lack of adequate infrastructure.
In 2014, the BCI had refused to enrol students as advocates since the DU law faculty did not have affiliation. Considering the future of students, the BCI had then given the DU provisional affiliation, but the faculty has been functioning without an affiliation since 2015.
However, following the court order, the BCI will decide on the number of students the university will admit this year and also take a decision on the affiliation.
Law aspirant Abhinav Khandpur, also an aide of BJP MP Maheish Girri, said, “The BCI has been demanding to turn the evening colleges into morning colleges.”
This simply means the change of location, as South Campus centre will shift to North Campus, creating problems for students doing part-time jobs. Secondly, they want to reduce the number of seats from 2,600 to 900 — 300 seats in all the three centres.”
He maintained that the BCI held a meeting with the university and till the final report is not submitted, nothing can be said. “Even our own dean R.C. Raina is not ready to talk about it for now. The future of students is at stake,” he said.
