Observing that the state of legal education, including its infrastructure, is nothing but worrying, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Bar Council. India (BCI) To constitute special expert teams to conduct surprise inspections of law colleges in the country. Justice Chandradhari Singh said that the BCI will upload such inspection reports on its website within a month and also take immediate steps to close down the colleges which lack minimum basic facilities.
Lamenting the commercialization of education, the judge observed that these steps should be introduced to “correct the maladies afflicted by legal education” and it is astonishing how the stakeholders of legal education can tolerate such a situation. The court passed the order on a plea by a private law college here on the issue of increasing the number of students for the five-year integrated course of BA LLB.
The state of legal education, including the state of infrastructure, is nothing but worrisome. There are law colleges where you may not have enough faculty, classrooms, library etc.
“It is unfortunate that this Court is being compelled to observe that there are law colleges where you just have to go and pay the fees, the rest is taken care of. It is amazing to tell how a legal profession or how we as stakeholders of legal education can tolerate such a situation. Shutting down such institutions is a huge responsibility on the Bar Council of India,” it observed. Stating that BCI was the regulator of legal education, the court ordered: It is directed that BCI should constitute special expert teams to make surprise visits to colleges which lack minimum infrastructure and adequate facilities.
Within one month of such inspection, the inspection report of the college teaching method will be uploaded on its website. If on such inspection any college is found to lack minimum basic facilities, then BCI should take immediate steps to close down such colleges.
The court observed that the relevant BCI rules themselves mandate that any institution imparting legal education must adhere to the minimum standards of infrastructure and said that before increasing the strength of the students, it is necessary that the existing infrastructure in the colleges be upgraded. to be done.
Therefore, in the present case, the court said, classes or any educational activity cannot be allowed to be conducted in the basement of the petitioner college.
The court emphasized that proper standards of education cannot be achieved unless the campus has adequate infrastructure facilities like classrooms, libraries, laboratories, well equipped teaching staff of requisite capacity and proper student-teacher ratio. Commercialization of education is another curse from which this sector is suffering in India. One such manifestation of profiteering in this noble profession is in the form of enrolling additional students in each incoming batch without upgrading the existing infrastructure.
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