{"id":4802,"date":"2019-08-16T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T10:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2019-08-16T10:18:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T10:18:24","slug":"bci-imposed-moratorium-on-opening-new-law-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/bci-imposed-moratorium-on-opening-new-law-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"BCI imposed moratorium on opening new law colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Bar Council of India (BCI) imposed a moratorium on opening new law colleges for a period of three years. The restriction, however, will not apply to National Law University, if proposed by a government in a State where there is no such varsity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides, the BCI can open any model institution of Legal\nEducation, like the National Law School of India University it opened in\nBengaluru, a statement signed by its chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Council requested State governments and universities to\nstop unfair means and ensure that vacancies of law teachers in all the college\nare filled within four months. \u201cAt present, there are enough Institutions in\nall parts of the country to feed the law courts and to serve the people. There\nis no dearth of advocates and the existing institutions are sufficient to\nproduce the required number of law graduates annually,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mushrooming of law colleges without proper infrastructure\nwas raised by BCI member from Delhi, Bed Parakash Sharma. The issue was raised\nin Parliament too. The Council resolved that it would consider pending\nproposals only. No fresh application would be entertained for any new\ninstitution.\n\nThe Council said there were about 1,500 law\ncolleges. Among the problems that plague these institutions are lack of\ninfrastructure and chronic teaching vacancies.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bar Council of India (BCI) imposed a moratorium on opening new law colleges for a period of three years. The restriction, however, will not apply to National Law University, if proposed by a government in a State where there is no such varsity. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Besides, the BCI can open any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[459],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-bci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}