As per the UGC’s new affidavit, the five-year integrated law course is a “professional degree programme, and different yardsticks in terms of assessment/evaluation may be required to select students for admission in this professional degree programme.”
It said that each Central university is established by an Act of Parliament, and it is governed by the respective Act.
The Commission referred to the Central Universities Act, 2009 which said that admissions to Central universities shall be made on merit, either through common entrance tests conducted by the university or in combination with other universities or on the basis of marks obtained in the qualifying examination in such courses where the intake of students is small.
“The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a centralized national-level entrance test for admission to Law programmes. CLAT has been primarily adopted by the premier National Law Universities in India for admission of students to Law courses. University of Delhi with the approval of its Academic Council and Executive Council has resolved to admit students in its Five-Year Integrated Law courses through CLAT, a centralized national-level entrance test,” it contended.
Source: Barandbench
