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MANAN KUMAR MISHRA

SeniorAdvocate
CHAIRMAN

 

(Statutory Body Constituted under the Advocates Act, 1961)
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PRESS RELEASE DATED 12.08.2019

1. Bar Council of India has imposed a moratorium for a period of three years on
opening of New Law Colleges in the country: The Council, in its meeting held
on 11.8.2019 discussed and deliberated over the issue raised by Mr. Ved
Prakash Sharma, I-Ion?ble Member representing the State of Delhi. Even in the
Parliament this issue was raised by some Hon?ble Members about the
mushroom growth of Law Colleges in the country.

2. The Council also RESOLVED that it will consider the pending proposals only
and no fresh pr0posal application shall be entertained for any new
Institution.

3. However, the restriction will not apply for any National Law University if
proposed by any State Government, if that state has no National Law
University from before. Moreover, the Bar Council of India, if decides to open
any Model Institution of Legal Education as it did earlier by opening National
Law School of India University, Bangalore, it could do so.

4. In the present resolution, the Bar Council of India has assigned the reason that
there are about 1500 law colleges; due to lethargy of universities and some
State Governments, several colleges are running without proper
infrastructure. State Governments seldom take interest in appointing law
faculties in the Government Law Colleges and the constituent units. State
Government grant No Objection Certificates and Universities are granting
affiliations recklessly. Universities are unable to stOp the use of unfair means
at the law exams in most of rural areas; the State Governments do not show
any interest in checking unfair means. Due to negligence of University Grants
Commission (UGC), 90% of law colleges law schools do not get any grant to
improve their standards. Moreover, it is very easy to get LL. and Ph. 
degrees because of total non-concern of I-IRD Ministry and Universities. That
is the reasons for the acute dearth of good law teachers? in the country. LLM
and Ph. D. degrees are not under the control of Bar Council of India and only
approval recognition of LL. degree is within its domain.

 

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MANAN KU MAR MISHRA Senior Advocate
CHAIRMAN Continued

 

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5. Therefore, for next three years Bar Council of India will lay stress on
improvement of standard of the existing Institutions and the Institutions who
have no proper infrastructure and faculty, would be closed down.

6. It is to be noted that in the year 2016 also, the Bar Council of India had taken
such decision to stop approval of new law colleges and it requested the State
Governments not to grant ?No objection Certificate? (NOC) to any new Law
College or Law University for two years. The Universities were requested to
stop granting affiliations to new colleges and to improve the standard of
existing Institutions. But even after that decision, more than 300 ?No
Objection Certificates were issued and Affiliation were granted.
When Bar Council of India refused to grant approval of such affiliations, the
Institutions approached the Law courts, and some of the I-Ion?ble High Courts
issued directions to consider the proposals.

7. The Council has requested the State Governments and the Universities to stop
unfair means and to ensure the filling up of all the vacancies of Law Teachers
in all the college/ Universities Within a period of 4 months.

8. The Council has observed that at present there are enough Institutions in all
parts of the country to feed the law courts and to serve the people. There is no
dearth of advocates and the existing Institutions are sufficient to produce
required number of law graduates annually.

9. At present there is urgent need to improve the standard of teaching and in
order to achieve that goal the Council has planned to train the law teachers of
the country.

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KUMAR 
Chairman

Bar Council of India