CNLU Strike VC Lakshminath – Students should understand that this is legal profession and corporations and banks do not recruit law students as much as management students

Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) students are protesting against poor placements offered by the law school. Around 50 students blocked the main gate of the university and held the Vice-Chancellor hostage for not taking any initiatives to ensure job placements..The Telegraph reports that the situation could be brought under control only after Vice Chancellor, A. Lakshminath called the police. The Vice Chancellor later promised to take steps towards ensuring placements to the students..CNLU students had also recently lodged a complaint in this regard at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s janata darbar.The students told the Chief Minister that no company had come to the campus to offer them jobs since it was established in 2006..According to the Telegraph, a final-year student of CNLU, said, “the Vice Chancellor of the university, has been making false promises to us. Not a single company visited the campus for placement. Students are being charged hefty fees but the placement rate is zero”..He added, “When we asked why there were no placements in our university, the Vice Chancellor gave us an evasive response. He said the reputation of Bihar is bad and that is the reason why big companies do not want to come here. He also said that the university is not responsible for giving placement to the students”..Bar & Bench spoke to the Vice Chancellor, A. Lakshminath on the plans of the university for getting the students recruited. He informed to us that they have invited companies and law firms to the university and they will be coming..He added, “We are making our best efforts but after all this is a university. Students should understand that this is legal profession and corporations and banks do not recruit law students as much as management students. The problem is that all the students want placement with corporate sectors, banks or civil services. Some companies had come but they were offering very meagre packages which none of the students wanted. Also, the students want that the state government to create posts but the same will take longer time”..Speaking to the media earlier, VC Lakshminath said, “We want them to be good lawyers before entering the profession. As far as placement is concerned, the university is trying to invite companies. In fact, four companies had come here, but they were offering a very little compensation package. We want them to become good lawyers before they enter into the real world”.