Bar Council of India overstepping its role
Bar Council of India overstepping its role
Sajid Sheikh, Adithya A Variath
India for the past few years is witnessing an unprecedented transformation in the education sector. This growth in the knowledge economy depends crucially on our ability to strengthen institutional frameworks that foster education. In 2019, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry introduced the draft National Education Policy (NEP) to improve education in the country. The policy was subsequently approved by the Union Cabinet of India on 29 July 2020. However, the changes envisaged in NEP for the legal education in India were unwary. The Bar Council of India recently claimed that it holds the power to regulate higher legal education because NEP2020 does not make any explicit provision pertaining to it. The National Education Policy 2020 also highlights that the present system of education is overregulated and under-governed. The policy recommended consolidati
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The Consortium of National Law Universities has advised the Universities to take individual decisions in terms of opening up their Universities in a phased manner. The Universities have however been.
BCI told the Supreme Court that its decision to scrap the one-year LL.M programme and derecognise foreign LL.M will be brought into force only from the academic year 2022-23.
The Bar Council of India on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the decision to discontinue the one-year LLM course will come into effect from academic year 2022-23.A bench, headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices A.S. .