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GLC Mumbai gets BCI nod, law admission deadline extended
The Bar Council of India has approved Government Law College, Mumbai, and 18 other colleges, ending days of uncertainty for thousands of law aspirants. The Bombay High Court has extended the deadline…
The Story in Brief
The Bar Council of India has approved Government Law College, Mumbai, and 18 other colleges, ending days of uncertainty for thousands of law aspirants. The Bombay High Court has extended the deadline for filling option forms to August 9 for both the three-year and five-year law programmes. Meanwhile, the State CET Cell has proposed allowing students to reject their first-preference college allotment and continue in subsequent rounds, and to submit fresh option forms before each round. The proposal awaits state government approval. The moves come as only 102 colleges for the three-year LLB (10,105 seats) and 66 for the five-year course (5,955 seats) were cleared for the first round, against 54,000 and 20,000 applicants respectively.
The Indian Opinion
The official narrative frames this as a minor administrative delay, but the truth is messier. Nearly half the law seats were missing from the first round because colleges and regulators failed to secure approvals on time. Students, not the system, bear the cost of lost time and anxiety. The CET Cell's proposal to allow rejection of a first-preference allotment and fresh option forms is a sensible fix, but only if the state government approves it before the next round. The real test: will the number of available seats in round 2 exceed 12,000, or will more colleges remain missing?
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com (2)
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