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Bar Council sets up review panel
The dichotomy in the University Grants Commission UGC eligibility norms for law teachers to acquire full-time status and those prescribed by the Bar Council of India BCI has prompted the Maharashtra Bar Council to set up a three-member review committee.
As per UGC norms, to acquire full-time status, teachers have to clear eligibility tests like the National or the State eligibility tests or pass the LLM degree examination, while the BCI qualifies such lawyers who have over five years experience in the profession to teach.
Advocate Sudhakar Avhad, member, Maharashtra Bar Council and one of the three committee members said that they would examine the criteria apart from reviewing the law syllabus. We have also demanded a professional course status for the law degree course on par with other professional courses like medicine and engineering. The committee include members D D Shinde and Shrikant Kanitkar.
Madhav Gokhale PUWJ president
Madhav Gokhale, senior reporter with The Indian Express was on Sunday elected president of Pune Union Working Journalists PUWJ. Shashikant Bhagwat of Sakal will be the new general secretary.
Among other office-bearers include vice-presidents Seema Deshpande Loksatta and Mukund Adkar Sakal, secretaries Maruti Joshi Prabhat and Vitthal Jadhav Saamna, treasurer Shriram Shinde Maharashtra Herald, internal auditor Mahendra Phate Sakal and executive committee members Abdid Shaikh, Chandrashekhar Patwardhan, Nitin Bandal all Sakal, Ashish Pendse, Dhananjay Jadhav both Loksatta, Uday Harshe Kesari, Sadanand Godse Maharashtra Herald, Prasad Ghare Lokmat and Vijay Bhosale Kesari co-opted member.
Former AIR official Chandrashekhar Karkhanis, AIR correspondent in Pune Sanjyot Amondikar and PIB official Rohini Pethe were the returning officer.Earlier, the PUWJ general body approved a welfare scheme for the working journalists. The meeting also felicitated outgoing president Uddhav Bhadsalkar, his team, Pune Patrakar Pratishtan president Gopalrao Patwardhan and Maharashtra Union of Working Journalists Association president Madhukar Prabhudesai.
