The case relating to the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) will be taken up after the Diwali holidays..A Bench of Justices SA Bobde and L Nageswara Rao adjourned the matter after the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) submitted its report on CLAT 2018..Senior Advocate Maninder Singh, who appeared for National Testing Agency, expressed readiness to conduct CLAT..Advocate Zoheb Hussain appearing for the one of the petitioners expressed his willingness to the same, subject to certain caveats..The Court directed that a copy of the MHRD report be served on all the parties..Meanwhile, Senior Advocate Sajan Poovayya, who appeared for NLSIU Bangalore, submitted that two important decisions have been taken with respect to CLAT – establishment of a Permanent Secretariat and taking the test offline..“We have established a Permanent Secretariat. We have also decided to make the test offline. This would mean that all the technical glitches, power problems, problem with computers etc would no longer be there.”.The Court said that it will consider all the submissions on the next date of hearing after considering the MHRD report. It then posted the case to be heard after Diwali break..A plea for the establishment of a permanent body to conduct CLAT was also mooted by academic and Intellectual Property Law Expert, Prof Shamnad Basheer, in his PIL filed before the Supreme Court in 2015..Earlier this month, the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) unanimously resolved that CLAT 2019 will be conducted offline. The Consortium, in an earlier meeting, resolved to establish a Permanent Secretariat to oversee the conduct of the annual exam..Read the affidavit filed by NLSIU Bangalore:.Read the Supreme Court order.
The case relating to the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) will be taken up after the Diwali holidays..A Bench of Justices SA Bobde and L Nageswara Rao adjourned the matter after the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) submitted its report on CLAT 2018..Senior Advocate Maninder Singh, who appeared for National Testing Agency, expressed readiness to conduct CLAT..Advocate Zoheb Hussain appearing for the one of the petitioners expressed his willingness to the same, subject to certain caveats..The Court directed that a copy of the MHRD report be served on all the parties..Meanwhile, Senior Advocate Sajan Poovayya, who appeared for NLSIU Bangalore, submitted that two important decisions have been taken with respect to CLAT – establishment of a Permanent Secretariat and taking the test offline..“We have established a Permanent Secretariat. We have also decided to make the test offline. This would mean that all the technical glitches, power problems, problem with computers etc would no longer be there.”.The Court said that it will consider all the submissions on the next date of hearing after considering the MHRD report. It then posted the case to be heard after Diwali break..A plea for the establishment of a permanent body to conduct CLAT was also mooted by academic and Intellectual Property Law Expert, Prof Shamnad Basheer, in his PIL filed before the Supreme Court in 2015..Earlier this month, the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) unanimously resolved that CLAT 2019 will be conducted offline. The Consortium, in an earlier meeting, resolved to establish a Permanent Secretariat to oversee the conduct of the annual exam..Read the affidavit filed by NLSIU Bangalore:.Read the Supreme Court order.
