Breaking News! CLAT 2024 Official Notification Releases New Guidelines For Aspirants, Check Before Applying

The last date to register for CLAT Exam 2024 is on or before November 3, 2023. The Consortium has also released special guidelines for candidates appearing for Common Law Admission Test 2024 with benchmark disabilities/ persons with disabilities (PWDs)/ Specially Abled Persons (SAPS). CLAT 2024 is scheduled to be held on December 3, 2023.

Breaking News! CLAT 2024 Official Notification Releases New Guidelines For Aspirants, Check Before Applying

The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has begun the CLAT 2024 Application Process from today; i.e. July 1, 2023. The last date to register for CLAT Exam 2024 is on or before November 3, 2023. The Consortium has also released special guidelines for candidates appearing for Common Law Admission Test 2024 with benchmark disabilities/ persons with disabilities (PWDs)/ Specially Abled Persons (SAPS). CLAT 2024 is scheduled to be held on December 3, 2023.

Guidelines for persons with benchmark disabilities/ persons with disabilities (PWDs)/ Specially Abled Persons (SAPS). 

Candidates can check the complete guidelines below:

• Extra Time:  Candidates appearing for CLAT 2024 who are ‘persons with benchmark disability’ as defined in Section 2(r) of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (the “Act”) are entitled to extra time (compensatory time) of 40 (forty) minutes, for the two hour CLAT 2024. The total time that such candidates will be provided for CLAT 2024 will therefore be 2 (two) hours and 40 (forty) minutes.

• Persons with benchmark disability seeking compensatory time should carry their original Disability Certificate to the Test Centre on the day of CLAT 2024.
• Scribe Assistance: The facility of requesting a scribe/ reader is available to any person with a benchmark disability (not less than 40%), in the category of blindness, locomotor disability (both arms affected-BA), and cerebral palsy.
• In addition, any other candidate with “specified disabilities” as defined in Section 2(s) of the Act, who has a physical limitation that impedes writing, is also eligible to opt for scribe/reader assistance. Such candidates must produce a certificate to the effect that they have a physical limitation that impedes writing, and that assistance of a scribe is essential for them to write the examination. The certificate must be duly attested by the Chief Medical Officer / Civil Surgeon / Medical Superintendent of a Government Healthcare Institution, in accordance with Office Memorandum dated 10th August 2022. 
• Any candidates eligible to obtain the facility of a scribe/ reader as described in this Notification may make arrangements for their own scribe and bear the associated costs. If any such person is unable to make arrangements for their own scribe, they shall notify the Consortium of National 1 CONSORTIUM OF NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITIES Reg.No:DRB1/SOR/707/2018-2019. NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY Post Bag No.7201, Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru-560072 Karnataka, India Law Universities (the “Consortium”) that they require the Consortium to arrange a scribe/ reader for them, in the manner that the Consortium shall publish.
• Any scribe/ reader arranged by a candidate for CLAT 2024 must meet the following
  qualifications:
  (a) UG CLAT – The scribe should not have completed more than the 11th grade. The
  scribe should not be currently enrolled in the 12th grade or higher. The scribe
  must not be affiliated to any test-preparatory organisation or examination
  coaching centre.
  (a) PG CLAT – The scribe should not have completed more than the 12th grade. The
  scribe should not be a law student, and must not be affiliated to any
  test-preparatory organisation or examination coaching centre.
• The Consortium shall also provide appropriate support to those candidates with benchmark disabilities, and candidates described in para 4 above who request such facilities, on a case-by-case basis, in order to complete CLAT 2024 successfully. In the event any such candidate requires any support in this regard, they may contact the Consortium in the manner that the Consortium shall publish.
• Candidates who would like to avail the facility of a scribe/ reader are required to send the duly filled proformas (Appendix I, II, and III) to the Consortium in the manner, and by the date, that the Consortium shall publish.

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