With high hopes most of the BA (Honours) llB (Honours) 2013-19 session students at National University of Study and Research in law (NUSRl) look for corporate world as their future career instead of grabbing a government job. The handful ones aspiring for government employment feel to work for the betterment of the society.
Monday was the first day for these Common law Admission Test (ClAT) 2013 cracked youngsters at this state capital’s reputed national law school for they were motivated by their Vice Chancellor AK Koul, Registrar Alok Kumar Sengupta, Assistant Dean PP Mitra, Public Relations Officer Satya Kumar and other faculty members on the need and challenges of law education in the present scenario.
Explaining the fact for ignoring public sectors, Odisha resident Rakesh Sahoo of the new undergraduate law batch said, “As a job seeker no one wants to go for litigation nowadays during the initial employment phase as it has lot of formalities. Everyone wants to earn quick money which is possible with corporate law stream. Though, after gaining an experience of five to six years one can think of joining the litigation affairs.”
“There are fewer vacancies for law graduates in the government recruitments. This is the reason we would prefer to be in a corporate law firm,” said another new comer Saif Ali, a local dweller.
Varanasi based Amit Kumar of this batch too agreed with Saif and Rakesh’s views. “Corporate law has always been my first preference and will remain the same as a career goal. After working for around five years as corporate lawyer I might plan to switch over to a public sector,” said Amit.
Interestingly, as a routine to do internship at the end of every semester, majority of the old NUSRl students too opt at corporate firms for their training. The seventh semester students who are the senior most batch here have benefitted with handsome stipends in the last summer internship. “Among the 22 arenas where our students were trained in the last session, hardly five or six are Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) units,” informed PRO SK Sinha.
Contradicting the above statements, Jodhpur resident Anirudh Sharma and Ranchi’s Ayyush Ojha of the fresh batch supported government perspective. They said, “Today political matters are complex and much lawyers are needed to create a positive influence on the countrymen.”
Out of the 100 seat limit, 75 have been filled till date and the admission process for the remaining 25 are still going on. PRO Satya conceded, “The entire 50 percent domicile quota seats for this fresh session have been filled. As per our university’s independent norms, we would admit deserving students by July 16. The second loot of students for the fresh batch would be taken by the end of this month on the basis of ClAT scores.”
Despite the space crunch at the rented campus building and hostels, these youngest NUSRl students are happy with the wifi equipped hostel premises and other academic facilities. Adding more smile on the orientation day of these newcomers, the interaction with the faculty, administration and senior undergraduate students has boosted them to focus on the law subjects followed with the preparations for moot courts in the coming years at this 13th national law university of India.
Notably, the permanent campus of NUSRl is being made at Nagri block at a rapid pace. Administrative authorities assured the fresh batch that by next year classes would be carried out at Nagri wherein the so called infrastructure hurdle would be solved with apt space for classrooms and hostels.