CJI Chandrachud tells RPNLU Prayagraj to attract best minds by shifting to Hindi medium
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday suggested the National Law University to change the medium of instruction to Hindi, so that the best students from Uttar Pradesh could become the best lawyers.
Speaking during the inauguration of the newest National Law University in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Dr Rajendra Prasad National Law University, the CJI said the NLU must understand the new demands of the legal profession.
Calling law students as torchbearers of the future, he said that internships and moot courts were conventionally designed to favour students who belonged to elite and English-speaking background.
He said the data taken from surveys of five National Law Universities revealed that the composition of law schools in terms of region, gender and the premium attached to the fluency of English language and a stigma for a lack of knowledge of English language amongst students was acting as a hinderance to the full participation and assimilation of students coming from diverse backgrounds.
Stressing on the need to break the language barrier that hampered education being granted to law aspirants, the CJI said that despite the developments in legal education, the contemporary Indian legal education system only favoured certain English speaking, urban students.
He added that college campuses must provide a place dynamic in nature for different beliefs to interact.
As per the CJI, technology gave the students the ability to reach beyond the physical space and it must be used to reach out to the students in Uttar Pradesh as well as in other states of the country.
He said though the establishment of NLUs has helped in raising the standards of legal education, special subjects like space law and technology law should not remain limited to the curriculum of National Law Universities. He urged that the quality of legal education imparted in all colleges must be at par with each other.
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