Law schools, legal education: India

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Law colleges in India, state-wise

Pradeep Thakur, Jolly LLB factories? UP, Andhra come under BCI's lens, Feb 23, 2017: The Times of India

Law colleges in India, state-wise, 2013-16; Pradeep Thakur, Jolly LLB factories? UP, Andhra come under BCI's lens, Feb 23, 2017: The Times of India

It could be easier to get permission to set up a law college in India than to get a law degree. A list of law colleges prepared by the Bar Council of India (BCI) shows that Uttar Pradesh has 351law colleges, more than any other state in India, and that one of its little-known universities, Shri Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University in Kanpur, has 88 affiliated colleges awarding law degrees.

Of these 88 colleges, 44 were given permission to impart legal education in just two years, between 2014 and 2016. Popular UP varsity Chaudhary Charan Singh (CCS) University in Meerut has no less than 101 law colleges. The university affiliated a record 54 colleges in just four years, between 2012 and 2016, to conduct degree-level courses.

The mushrooming of law colleges in UP is indicative of the popularity of legal degrees, which attract students from across the country . This has, however, raised concerns in the legal and judicial fraternity about the quality of the advocates these institutions are churning out in hundreds.

“It's a matter of concern that some of the universities have given too many affiliations to start law colleges. We are looking into some cases in UP and Andhra Pradesh,“ BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra told TOI. However, he said the responsibility largely lay with state governments, which grant no-objection certi ficates after verifying that the colleges have adequate infrastructure to start degree courses.

Elite or well-known universities like Allahabad University , the Banaras Hindu University and Aligarh Muslim University have just one or two law colleges. Of the 1,500-odd law colleges in India as of May 2016, MP accounts for the second-highest statewise figure with at least 143 listed law colleges, followed by Maharashtra (139), Karnataka (115) and Rajasthan (110).

In MP, Barkatullah University , Bhopal, has 29 affiliated law colleges; Awadhesh Pratap Singh University , Rewa, has 21; and Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, has 24. However, at least five of the Indore varsity's affiliates are under show cause notices debarring admissions. According to the BCI list, Rajasthan University in Jaipur has 41affiliated law colleges, most of which were set up after 2003.