National Law Institute University

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National Law Institute University

Established: 1997
Type: Public
Chancellor: Prof. Balraj Chauhan
Location: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Campus: Urban
Nickname: NLIU
Affiliations: UGC
Website: www.nliu.com


National Law Institute University (NLIU) Bhopal was established in 1998 by an enactment of the State Legislature of Madhya Pradesh. Recognised by the Bar Council of India, the university admits only 80 undergraduates each year who complete 15 rigorous trimesters before being awarded a combined B.A., LL.B (Hons.) degree. The post-graduate course offered at the university is the LL.M. degree. Currently ranked third by the India Today rankings of law colleges in the country, NLIU was modeled on the lines of the earlier established National Law School of India University at Bangalore. The patron of the university is the Hon. Chief Justice of India and the university works closely with the High Court of Madhya Pradesh, as well as the neighboring National Judicial Academy.

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[edit] Motto

The National Law Institute University has been successful in instilling a sense of broad perspective along with scholastic and reflexive capabilities bearing in mind larger national and humanitarian goals in its students.

The motto of this University inter alia are to:

Dissemination of learning and knowledge of law and legal processes and their role in National Development.

Independence and autonomy to encourage intellectual freedom and development of personality and outstanding qualities of leadership amongst its students.

Innovative interdisciplinary programmes with a clinical component combining law, literature, language, economics and sociology.

A system of active learning through high level of teacher-student interaction and internal continuous assessment.

Coordination of the bar, bench, academics and industry in planning socially and professionally relevant programmes.

The University aims to provide this country great lawyers with social responsibility. During the campus life the University administration makes it a point to inculcate the principles of virtues and ethics in its students so that they can realise that by deciding to join this profession they have taken a great responsibility of social engineering.

[edit] Infrastructure

Halls of Residence

The University offers separate residential facilities for men and women. All residents are provided with single rooms each having modular study and computer table, spacious steel almirah and cupboard. The Halls boast of manicured lawns, gymnasium, common room fitted with colour television and cable network, reading room and indoor sports facilities. The residents are also provided with 24 hours hot and cold water and laundry services.



The modest mess facilities at the Halls of Residence endeavor to provide for quality breakfast, lunch, evening tea with snakes and dinner all with different menu for each day of the week. The menu ranges from North Indian and South Indian to the Chinese. Non-vegetarian food is served four times a week. Late night snacks are provided during the exam weeks. Sundays are usually a special treat.

The Women’s Hall boasts of a magnificent Japanese Rock Garden. The spirit of endurance and independence of women is celebrated in the Campus on the eve of Women’s Day. The week long festival organised exclusively by the Women’s Hall epitomises feminine grace and freedom of women. A member of the faculty advises the women students on all issues of concern, including sexual harassment.

A new Hall of Residence with more amenities for research scholars and senior students is in the midst of construction. Hon’ble Justice A.K. Patnaik, Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court, laid the foundation stone of this building.

The students participate through various committees in the maintenance of discipline and other activities of the hostel viz. ‘Dining Committee’, ‘Cultural Committee’, ‘Discipline Committee’, ‘Medical Assistance Committee’ and ‘Event Management Committee’ – making the Halls of Residence unique in themselves and distinguished from the rest in terms of practicing participatory management and living democracy.

Ragging is strictly prohibited inside and outside the University Campus. The “First Response and Counselling Committee” has been established and empowered to take immediate action against any untoward action and also to counsel the fresher. However, care is taken that strict discipline in this regard does not stifle a healthy interaction between the fresher and their seniors. To enhance familiarity and to acclimatize the fresher to the academic and the social environment of the campus, an orientation session is organized in the first week of the new academic calendar.

Academic Support Services :

Gyan Mandir

NLIU Library, the heart and soul of the University was inaugurated and dedicated to the Nation by the Hon’ble Minster of HRD, Shri Arjun Singh on September 19, 2005. It is a centrally air-conditioned, state-of-the-art building housing a library, a cyber network centre, faculty chambers and class rooms.


Library

The library is well equipped with over 30,000 volumes consisting of reference books, back volumes of journals and law reports, current legal periodicals and a wealth of statistical material and rare collections. The students maintain the computerized ‘knowledge management system’ that adds around 5000 student projects to the database annually and aids in disseminating information for research. Photocopying facility is available within the premises.


A range of online access like lexis-nexis, Manupatra and other legal research based software such as SCC Online and Grand Jurix are available for research. More databases on Legal and Humanities and Social Sciences are in the process of addition to the existing array of Electronic Databases. It is in the process of implementing the advances in Information and Communication Technologies and RFID enabled solutions for all its transactions, inventory and resource management.

The library has received wide acclaim and recommendation from legal luminaries and experts like Justice G. K. Acquah, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana, Justice V.S. Malimath, Justice Madan Lokur and Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon.

Cyber Network Centre and Internet facility The Centre houses over a hundred Pentium IV computers with a high-speed 2 MB leased circuit for Internet. It is equipped with projectors and other audiovisual devices. Round the clock Internet access is available. Apart from this, the University campus is Wi – Fi (Wireless – fidelity) enabled with 18 ‘hot spots’ spread across the campus providing users with instant Internet access on their personal computers and laptops. The Center will soon have its video conferencing facility connecting other institutions in India and abroad and is to establish a Virtual Classroom, E-learning Centre and Online Examination Centre.


Academic Block

The Academic Block comprises of spacious classrooms, conference halls, moot court practice room and faculty lounges. The distinctive feature of the Academic Block is the emerald green dome through which sunlight streams in setting the building aglow. The Academic Block has been the stage for some of the most profound lectures.


Administrative Block

The Administrative Block, centrally located modern structure, comprises the offices of the Director, Registrar and Finance Officer and a sophisticated conference room.


Guest House

The university has a Guest House with spacious and furnished rooms to cater to the needs of regular visiting faculty , academics, judicial personnel and other visitors to the university. The lounges and the dinning hall have been done up warmly and aesthetically for the visitors. It offers a comfortable stay for parents who come to visit their wards subject to prior notice and reservation.


Faculty Residence

The university has deluxe apartments for faculty and staff members. The on campus apartments make the teaching faculty accessible to students around the clock.


Cafeteria

Adding to the colors of our law school, the cafeteria by Nescafe lends a warm ambience for the budding lawyers where they can take time out to rest and enjoy sips of coffee while discussing minutiae of the legal profession. On the professionally demanding landscape the cafeteria is a welcoming treat to all. Visits to the Barista, Cafechino, or CCD in the city which earlier burnt hole in everybody’s pocket have come down also giving the students a wide rage of eatables in the menu to choose from. Yes, Maggi is also available for all those gurgling stomachs taking a break form library or just to change the taste from the mess food!

Health care


A tie-up is in place with three Hospitals for attending to medical problems of the students. The University has engaged a senior physician who visits the campus thrice a week for medical consultation. For emergencies, the University has a vehicle at its disposal to take the students to the hospital for immediate attention and care.


Sport Facilities

You name it and we have it here! Breaking the boundaries of the traditional classroom teaching methodology, the University desires that apart from mundane library visits and attending lectures in the campus the students should also be encouraged to work upon their physical fitness as an integral part of personality development.

NLIU can now boast of its own ultra modern sporting complex having two courts each of Lawn Tennis, Volleyball and Basketball besides a Football field and an indigenously improvised Cricket maidan. A range of sporting activities can be managed inside the complex, which is set to have the indoor stadium for badminton, table tennis, billiards and scores of other games. The complex also includes an athletic track and a nature’s trail that catches the eyes of the early morning bird watchers. Banking Facilities

The Bank of Baroda has been organizing an extension counter on a weekly basis on the campus in the past. Students can open their accounts and carry out transactions through this extension counter. If students prefer, it is easy to avail the services of other banks such as ICICI, IDBI, UTI, SBI and many more in the city. In the pipeline is a proposal for setting up ATM counters inside the campus.


Transport Facilities

Two Swaraj Mazda 40 seated vehicles are used for providing conveyance facility for the faculty, staff and students to commute to the city, market and railway station. It is also used for several other students’ activities like court visits, clinical programs, field studies and legal aid work. The buses have scheduled departures to the city from the campus twice a week.

[edit] SCHOLARSHIPS

A Gold Medal and four Gold plated Silver Medals have been instituted in the name of Pt. Ramlalji Sharma, an educationist, an eminent lawyer and a social worker of Central India.

The medals are for the toppers of the three Trimester Examinations in each year together and the Gold Medal for the student standing first in order of merit on the combined result of all the fifteen Trimesters.

Mr. Shardul S. Shroff, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff Co., New Delhi, have proposed to create a scholarship for our two students and institution of one or two medals in the name of late Shri Suresh A. Shroff.

THE Centre for Advanced Studies and Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP) University of Washington, Seattle, USA offers scholarships to two students every year to attend an annual three-week summer workshop on intellectual property. The students are given a scholarship, and an opportunity to interact with professionals in the field of intellectual property.


[edit] ASSOCIATIONS & CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITES

Administration | Photo Gallery | Academic Calender | Contact UsThe co-curricular activities of the university is regulated and overseen by the various committees, which are in existence. The following committees handle the main co-curricular activities taking place in the university. All the committees are run by students with a faculty in-charge. They have their own constitution and the students have been given the independence to formulate the working mode of these committee.

The Moot Court Association (MCA)

Moot court competitions have today become an integral part of a law student's life. Introduced as a part of the clinical legal education programme in an attempt to bridge the gap between the practice and teaching of law, moot court competitions have developed from being a mandatory course requirement into a fun-filled and refreshing mode of instruction. The value of such competitions in teaching a law student the skills of advocacy need hardly be emphasised. Suffice it to say that moot courts expose the students to the rigours of courtroom practice in a manner that the classroom can never achieve. The success of moot court competitions prompted the introduction of client counselling competitions to broaden the ambit of clinical legal education.

Though it would be incorrect to state that clinical legal education is limited to only these two types of activities, it can safely be asserted that they are the most effective simply because of the unparalleled manner in which they have managed to ignite the imagination and fuel the passion of law students countrywide. Realising the significant contributions made by moot courts and client counselling competitions in the training of quality lawyers, the Moot Court Association (MCA) was set up in order to maximise the benefits that the students could draw from such competitions.


A spate of ad hoc selections during the formative years of the University underscored the need for regulation of student participation in various competitions. Thus, in the year 2002 the MCA was formally set up with the primary objects of encouraging students to actively participate in moot courts, developing among them the skills of effective research and argumentation, and promoting among students a spirit of healthy competition and teamwork. The birth of the MCA reflects the triumph of the spirit of the students who tirelessly worked to succeed against all sorts of infrastructural and administrative odds. Needless to say, they were ably assisted in their noble endeavour by members of the faculty.

Now in its third year, the MCA has succeeded in formalising the structure and procedure for the selection of teams to represent the University in various national level competitions during the academic session. The MCA's policies have been guided by the effort to balance the interests of the University with those of the students, thus providing for maximum representation in competitions yet ensuring that individual talent and growth potential of the students is not stifled. In keeping with its objectives, the MCA has also initiated a number of competitions at the University level itself in order to expose the maximum number of students to the world of mooting and inspire them to partake in more such activities.

Taking upon itself the responsibility of improving the standard of mooting in the University, the MCA has also implemented a number of policies to train the students in the skills required and assist them in their preparation for various competitions. The success of the MCA's policies can be gauged from the marked increase in the number of trophies won by the University since the birth of the MCA.


The MCA's achievements are made all the more praiseworthy in light of the fact that it is almost entirely a student run organization. The MCA has representatives from each batch of the University and together this small group of students comprise its governing body. The governing body, which functions under the broad supervision and guidance of a faculty member, is responsible for the functioning and decision making of the MCA.

The MCA has been successful in selecting competent students for external moot courts that have time and again brought laurels to the University (see Student Achievements) but also for a transparent and rigorous selection procedure for external moot courts. External judges are called for evaluation. It has experimented with diverse selection procedures and now follows a three pronged selection process. The internal moot court competition for the first years has become an important learning ground for the first years.

The MCA has successfully lived up to the initial challenges that were put to it. It has formalized the structure of internal selections and implemented policies to achieve excellence in national level competitions while ensuring adherence to ethical standards. The MCA is now well set to face the next challenge, namely to host a national level moot court competition in the humble portals of this University.


23 Annual Inter University Bar Council Of India Trust Moot Court Competition 1 – 3 Dec. 2006.



NLIU, Bhopal recently had the honour and privilege of hosting the 23 Annual Inter University Bar Council of India Moot Court Competition from 1Dec. – 3 Dec. 2006. The inaugural session was graced by the presence of His Excellency Dr. Balram Jakhar, Governor, State of Madhya Pradesh as the chief guest and Sri R.B.Raghuvanshi, Vice – chairman of the Bar Council of India.

The Final Round, was judged by Hon’ble Justic Ashok Bhan, Judge Supreme court of India; Hon’ble Justice A.K. Patnaik, Chief Justice High Court of Madhya Pradesh; Hon’ble Justice Deepak Verma, Judge High High Court of Madhya Pradesh Sri R.B. Raghuvanshi, Vice Chairman, Bar Council of India and Sri S.N.P. Sinha, Member, Bar Council of India. The Valedictory Session was graced by Hon’ble Justice Ashok Bhan, Judge, Supreme Court of India. The winner team was ILS, Pune and the best Memorial was of NLSIU, Banglore.


The Placement Co-ordination Committee (PCC)


The PCC was formed with the aim to provide final placements and externshipss for the students. It serves as a communication channel between the prospective employers and students. It functions under a faculty head and comprises of final year students. The PCC is wholly independent in its structure and functioning and was responsible for the complete placement of the first batch of 2003. It has now come up with an excellent brochure highlighting the achievements and qualities of the Class of 2004 and is in the process of finalising placements for the same batch. The PCC owes its success to transparent procedures and excellent networking skills.


[edit] Centre for Intellectual Property

The Center for Intellectual Property came into existence in September, 2003. The Center was constituted by the Director, with the supervision of Ms. Monica Raje, Faculty Member. The basic structure of the Center comprises a six member governing council, along with 143 members from the student body. This center is wholly a student's initiative.

The core objectives of the Center for Intellectual Property are as follows:

1. To have a comprehensive and regularly updated resource base on the internet. Not only will such a resource base provide useful Intellectual Property related information to students, lawyers and academicians. The material will be researched by the student members of the Center for intellectual property. The web space for the website has been sponsored by the Asian Schools of Cyberlaws.

2. To disseminate knowledge of Intellectual Property, through the medium of seminars, symposiums and workshops. Certain government agencies, in the field of Intellectual Property, have shown keen interest in collaborating with the University to organize seminars. The Center has already organised its first is a one day workshop, in conjunction with Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, held on 22nd November, 2003. The resource persons for the seminar included: Dr. (Mrs) S.K. Verma, Mr. H. Subramanium, Ms. Pratibha Singh and Ms. Manoj Manda.

3. The cell intends to take a pioneering step and introduce an Intellectual Property journal. The thematic constructs of the journal would be: India and Intellectual Property-Breaking New Grounds. For the first issue, the center has confirmed contributions from eminent people, in the field of Intellectual Property. 4. With waves of harmonization, sweeping across the globe, in order to merge legal as well as policy distinctions in the field of Intellectual Property, the need Research and Development activities only increases. To be a part of the R&D web, the Center for Intellectual Property seeks research proposals from leading Governmental and Non-Governmental Agencies. At present, two such proposals have been received, namely: SARAI, an NGO and MANUPATRA, a commercial enterprise, involved in developing legal resources for law firms.

5. To make students aware of the dynamics of the evolution of the field of Intellectual Property, inviting experts to lecture on critical areas seems a step in this direction. The Center has outlined certain persons, academicians and lawyers, to share their knowledge and update students.

6. The Center is to assist and counsel students with regards placements and internships in the field of Intellectual Property Law. From its wide network of contacts, students can avail useful information on training under lawyers and law firms. Moreover, the Center will also update them as to important events related to Intellectual Property.

7. A miscellany of objects, to be pursued by the Center, include: Organizing Moot courts and publishing a bi-annual newsletter.

'Access to Justice'- Legal Aid Committee

The university has a tie up with international organizations and Bhopal based NGOs. The Committee provides necessary legal information to these NGOs. A number of students have been associated with NGOs and have been rendering their services on a personal level. These personal services have now been channeled through the official legal committee. The activities of the cell include:

NLIU's partnership with NGO's in pursuance of the Supreme Court Ruling pertaining to the distribution of compensation to the victims of Bhopal Gas Tragedy.

Adoption of the village Kesla to provide legal assistance and creating awareness amongst the tribal block of the area.

The students of the university have been associated with the Narmada Bachao Andolan and have been helping the oustees in registering their grievances with the Grievance Redressal Authority (GRA).

The university has established a strong network with NGOs such as UNICEF, UNHCR, Helpage India, Amnesty International, WWF, CRY, Samarthan etc to support socially relevant causes.

The university has established a patnership with the Bhopal District Courts in organizing Lok Adalats, whereby students participate in settling disputes.


The Literary Society

The writing skills of a lawyer are as important, if not more so, as his speaking skills. In fact in today's context, the writing skills are always seen as to be more significant and necessary for a lawyer. This society was formed with an aim to provide a writing platform for the students of NLIU thorough their periodic newsletter and web journal (see Web Journal). The object of the society is to hone the student's research and writing skills and provide them with a platform to display their skills. The society has come up with web journals and newsletters on specific issues like 'medicine and law', 'corporate and telecom laws' etc.


The Debating Club

Those students not specifically interested in moot courts yet have a penchant for public speaking can resort to this club. This club is responsible for organising weekly debates on not only legal issues but also current affairs and socio-cultural issues. It is also responsible for organising selections for external debate and extempore competitions.

[edit] ATHENA

To streamline the different cultural activities of the University and to organise more cultural shows in collaboration with other universities, Athena has been formed only recently. Still in its infancy, this society would look into consolidation of different activities under a society with specific members and faculty in-charge. It has been of course noted that when activities are conducted under the aegis of a particular society, the efficiency and productivity of the activities increase manifold.

The Event Management Committee

The strict curriculum does not deter students from organising cultural events within the university. The EMC is the cultural base of NLIU. Its is responsible for carrying out many cultural activities. It consists of students who are well informed about how to manage any show that is put under their responsibility. Other than organising and managing shows given to it, it also organises shows on special days - one of the most successful of its shows being the one organised on International Women's Day.

SPICMACAY

The SPICMACAY and NLIU have collaborated for promoting Indian art and culture among the youth. SPICMACAY and NLIU hosted two cultural concerts on campus showcasing the talents of Grammy Award Winner Padmashree Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Maestro Ram Kumar, Ustad Zulfikar Syed, Pandit Kore and Volinist T.N. Krishnan


Gender Justice Cell

The Gender Justice Cell is divided into three dealing with research & documentation, creativity and public relations. The orientation program witnesses a speaker from the Indian Center for Human Rights & Law, Mumbai and a leading NGO working for the rights of women and children. This Gender Sensitisation Programme aims at sensitizing and spreading awareness among people towards women related issues.

[edit] Law & Economics Society

Law & Economics Society is a recent initiative, which aims to provide for the discussion on contemporary interdisciplinary issues of law and economy. This society works on projects outsourced by research institutions, organizations (governmental), corporate houses and law firms. The society also organizes guest lectures, seminars and conferences.

[edit] Centre for Research and International Law (CRIL)

The Centre for Research and International Law (CRIL) was formed to facilitate the understanding of public international law and relations. CRIL promotes understanding of international law and relations amongst students in India through Model United Competitions, Round Table conferences and workshops in contemporary international issues.

[edit] Centre for Criminal Law Studies

This center has been set up to focus specifically on criminal law with respect to changing conceptions of law and society. The center is involved in prison reforms, and to further this, it has facilitated the interaction of students with jail authorities and jail inmates.

Students Law Commission

Law is a dynamic, ever changing and vibrant notion, which has to be updated, modernized, regularized and reorganized with the changing perception of the society. With this is mind, Justice M. Jagannath Rao, Chairman Law Commission of India, has first mooted the novel idea of establishing Students' law commission.

Cell for Law and Society

The Cell has become the buzzword of academic discourse in the campus. Structured to create 'democratic space' in the tensed academic environment and designed to develop a 'critique' of powerful politico-philosophical theories the cell continues its forward march towards achieving excellence in academics

[edit] Human Rights Cell

The aim of this cell is to promote and protect democratic values and human rights. The core areas of the work of this cell include- Research, Analysis and Advocacy; capacity building; field based experiments; information dissemination and promotion of networking relating to Human Rights.

[edit] Cell for Constitutional Jurisprudence

The cell proposes to develop a platform for the students and faculty members, conceptually analyze, discuss and debate upon the interplay between law and specialized field like, 'law and society', 'law and morality', 'law and development', 'law and market', 'law and corporate governance' and 'law and good governance' etc. in the constitutional perspective.

The Jurist Caucus

The Jurist Caucus encourages the student to adopt conceptual thinking-not constricted by rationality- and to apply the same in their chosen profession or area of specialisation. The idea is to produce not only jurists in the conventional sense, but also those who can provide juristic reflections drawn from professional experience.

Media Outreach Centre

A recently formed centre, it handles varied functions like designing and updating the official University Website periodically and serves as a link between university and the media in general. It comprises of students who have a creative bent of mind. In the future it looks forward to taking up many other activities. It consists of students from every batch and has a faculty in-charge.


[edit] VISITORS & LECTURES

Various seminars, research projects and workshops have been organized by NLIU in collaboration

The University organises the NLIU Annual Lecture Series. The following luminaries have interacted with faculty and students:


Hon’ble Mr. Justice Venkatchaliah, Former Chief Justice of India Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ahmadi, Former Chief Justice of India Hon’ble Mr. Justice J. S. Verma, Former Chief Justice of India. Hon’ble Mr. Justice R.C. Lahoti, Former Chief Justice of India. Hon’ble Mr. Justice Y.K. Sabharwal, the then Chief Justice of India. Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ashok Bhan, Judge, Supreme Court of India. Hon’ble Mr. Justice G. K. Acquah. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana Hon’ble Mr. Justice M. K. Maruf, Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Hon’ble Mr. Justice A.K. Patnaik, the Chief Justice of M.P. High Court Hon’ble Mr. Justice R.V. Ravindran, the Former Chief Justice of M.P. High Court.


Hon’ble Mr. Justice Rasheed Ibrahim Chief Justice of Republic of Maldives, , Hon’ble Mr. Justice Malimath, Former Chief Justice, Karnataka High Court Hon’ble Ms Roshan Dalvi, Judge, Bombay High Court His Excellency Lord Justice David Keynes, Court of Appeals. His Excellency Judge Randall R. Radar, Court of Appeal Federal Circuit, D.C. USA. Mr. Montek Singh Alhuwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission Mr. Raj Joshi, Head of the European and International Division Crown Prosecution Service, UK Mr. Soli Sorabjee, Former Attorney General of India. Mr. F.S. Nariman, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Of India. Mr. Raju Ramachandran, Former Additional Solicitor General. Ms. Indira Jaisingh, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Of India. Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon, Former Director of National Judicial Academy, Bhopal. Prof. Mohan Gopal, Director, National Judicial Academy, Bhopal. Dr. Suman Sahai,Director, 'Gene CampaignNew Delhi Prof. Martin Adelman, Centre of Intellectual Property Rights, George Washington University,USA.





[edit] Careers

Students of the University regularly place amongst the best in the country. Their career choices vary with some opting to join some of the top law firms, corporate houses, and non-governmental organizations in the country and some choosing to clerk for the Supreme Court of India and various provincial High Courts, and other . Many also choose a career in litigation at the Supreme Court and the provincial High Courts, while a significant number pursue graduate degrees at some of the best-known universities abroad. In previous years, graduates of NLIU have held LL.M. degrees from prestigious institutions such as Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, the London School of Economics, University College London, and National University of Singapore. The University has one of the best educational infrastructure in the country leaving behind some of its peers. The University library is one of its kind in India with a brain shaped infrastructure from outside and with some rare and precious books inside. The library contains thousands of book on varying subjects and issues. The University has subscription of hundreds of national and international journals and reports.

The University from its very beginning has collaborated with national and international organisations like United Nations etc. helping them in their noble causes by doing extensive research, making reports etc. on a wide variety of issues that concerns this human race. The selection process is very tough as there are about 80 seats only, so students of very high calibre and knowledge make it here.

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