Country's top law school out of reservation ambit

Seethalakshmi S & Mathang Seshagiri / TNN / Aug 15, 2006, 03:03 IST

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India's best-known Law school, National Law School of India University (NLSIU), will be spared from the quota burden.

Country's top law school out of reservation ambit

BANGALORE: While the country's premier medicine, management and engineering institutes - AIIMS, IIMs, IITs - will bear the quota burden, India's best-known Law school, National Law School of India University (NLSIU), will be spared.
While the Centre will roll out 27% reservation for OBCs in all premier institutes, NLSIU will not go in for an expansion overdrive to accommodate OBC students.Reason? NLSIU is governed by a special Act of the state government and is not funded by the Centre.
NLSIU, which has been granted ‘deemed university’ status by the University Grants Commission (UGC), was set up through a unique piece of legislation - National Law School of India Act (Karnataka Act 22 of 1986), on August 29, 1987.
The Chief Justice of India is the visitor of NLSIU and chairman of the Bar Council of India is the chairman of the general council of the School.

"We are a self-financing institute and generate 95% of the funds on our own. Though we are not substantially funded by the Centre, we get some grants from the state.
The state will have to amend the Act if the reservations have to be implemented," A Jayagovind, director, NLSIU, told TOI.
Even if the state government decides, it would be almost impossible to implement quota unless the institute is substantially funded by the government, Jayagovind added.

Chairman of the Oversight Committee, M Veerappa Moily, said, "None of the five sub-committees constituted by the government is looking into implementing quota at NLSIU.
Quotas are a fallout of the 93rd Constitutional Amendment and states have the power to enact their own legislation to have quota in educational institutes."
In its interim report, the Moily panel has recommended that institutes primarily engaged in research and development will not fall under the quota ambit. It has also said that institutes which have reservation for SC/ST should also reserve 27% seats for OBCs.
The Oversight Committee has also agreed with the recommendation of the sub-committee of management institutes, headed by Samuel Paul, to extend reservation only for the two-year PG diploma programme.
It has said fellow programmes, executive development programmes and faculty development courses should be excluded from the OBC quota.

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