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Patna,(BiharTimes): The reputation of Bihar is bad, that is the reason why big companies do not want to come here. The university is not responsible for giving placement to the students.
If students of Patna-based Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) is to be believed this is what the Vice Chancellor of the University told them when they approached him to ask why no firm has come in the last five years since its inception.
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What is more these words were uttered by the students before the chief minister Nitish Kumar at Janata Darbar on Monday. It was none else but the chief minister who got the CNLU inaugurated about five years back. The students were there to protest the poor condition of the CNLU.
Like Chandragupta Institute of Management Patna (CIMP) the Law University is also facing severe problems. There is acute shortage of faculty even as the first batch of five-year course is to pass out within a couple of months.
It needs to be recalled that in July 2009 a large number of students of CIMP sat on indefinite fast to protest the acute shortage of faculties and other facilities. They remained on fast for about six days. Save BiharTimes the local media blacked out the news. It was only on the fifth day of the fast when some students got hospitalized that the Press gave coverage to the problem of the students.
Now in the case of CNLU it is the non-placement of students which is cause of concern. The students told the chief minister that no company had come to the campus to offer them jobs since it was established in 2006.
Ravi Anand, a final-year student of CNLU, was quoted as saying: “A. Laxminath, the vice-chancellor of the university, has been making false promises to us. Not a single company visited the campus for placement. Students are being charged hefty fees but the placement rate is zero.”
The reputation of the CNLU has nose-dived to such a level in the last five years that one of the students who was selected for admission in 2010 refused to take admission here. Instead he took admission in Law in Aligarh Muslim University as CNLU, according to him, lacks facilities and placement propects.
Nitish assured the students that he would look into the matter. He said he would personally speak to the vice-chancellor regarding this problem.
However, according to students, one teacher is taking classes for more than 10 subjects. But the Bar Council of India has recommended that a teacher cannot teach more than three subjects.
Today CNLU does not even rank in the top 100 law institutes in India.
However, Vice-chancellor Lakshminath denies the allegations. They are frustrated and they want things to happen in a hurry but it does not happen like that, he told the media.
“As far as the placements are concerned, we are trying our best to call good companies to the university,” he said.
He said three or four companies have visited the campus but conceded that their offers were not good enough and were not suitable for students.
Only last month Bihar’s Human Resources Development minister, Prashant Kumar Shahi, himself a former advocate general, while speaking in the Assembly said that no talented faculty members are available for CNLU and engineering colleges of the state. He said that government had sought application for the posts but hardly anyone fulfilled the criteria.
It needs to be recalled that when in June 2009 one of the interviewers of the Pune-based reputed Law Institute asked the students from the state that do you agree that Bihar is the crime capital of India it became a big news back here. The chief minister Nitish Kumar also protested this incident. Now, if the students are to be believed, the vice chancellor of the CNLU founded at CM’s initiative is questioning the reputation of the CNLU.
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