BCI powers should be restricted to eligibility for practising: panel
The panel recommended a “National Council for Legal Education and Research” under the proposed Higher Education Commission of India (HECI). The HECI Bill, yet to be introduced in Parliament, will not have medical and law colleges under its ambit.
The complainant, Arun Kumar, who purchased a Wagon R for over Rs 4.5 lakh from a showroom in Amar Colony, Lajpat Nagar in May 2012, was shocked to notice the next day that the speedometer was not giving accurate results. (File Photo) Calling for reforms in the role of the Bar Council of India (BCI), a Parliamentary panel report said that the apex legal education regulator should be restricted to granting “basic eligibility for practising at the Bar”.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law And Justice panel, headed by Sushil Kumar Modi, tabled its report titled “Strengthening Legal Education in View of Emerging Challenges Before The Legal Profession” in the Rajya Sabha.
Calling for measures to give priority to “quality over quantity”, it said: “Many stakeholders have also raised serious concern about the manner in which the BCI has used the power to inspect law colleges and grant them recognition which has led to a reckless proliferation of substandard law colleges in the country.”
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