Vadodara: After much delay and a series of agitations, M S University’s Faculty of Law has received affiliation from the Bar Council of India (BCI). BCI has granted an extension to the approval of affiliation to the Faculty of Law for the 2024-25 academic year. It was on Wednesday last that the Law Faculty Students Association (LFSA), led by advocate and former faculty general secretary Parth Surti and student leader Parth Pandya, made a representation before the faculty dean regarding the long-pending recognition of courses.
Pending recognition, students who passed out were finding it difficult to get enrolled as advocates across the country. It was on Feb 14, 2019, that BCI had issued a show-cause notice to the faculty based on an inspection the council’s legal education committee had carried out. The faculty had admitted students to the five-year law course till 2018-19 without getting BCI approval, even though the council, through its show-cause notice, had asked the faculty not to admit any students to the five-year integrated law course until the renewal.
The faculty’s licence, as shown on the BCI portal, was only up to 2019 and hence the faculty was not entitled to admit any students after the said year unless and until BCI renewed the recognition, the representation made by LFSA had mentioned. “In the last two years, we have made several representations both orally and in writing at all levels, including to the MSU registrar, dean of Faculty of Law, MSU’s syndicate members, BCI officials and the Ministry of Law among others,” said Pandya. We also published the following articles recently Jipmer Faculty Association slams murder of Kolkata PG medical student Jipmer Faculty Association condemned the murder of a second-year postgraduate medical student at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
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