The Bar Council of India (BCI) said it “supports” the issue raised by petitioner Sudhanshu Pathak, a law student at the Delhi University. The CLAT Exam 2024 is scheduled to be conducted on December 3, 2023. Candidates can fill the CLAT Application Form 2024 until November 3, 2023. The petitioner, in his PIL, has said CLAT (UG) examination “discriminates” and fails to provide a “level playing field” to students whose educational backgrounds are rooted in regional languages.
CLAT 2024 to be conducted in regional languages too? Check what BCI said
CLAT 2024: The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2024 Exam if conducted in languages other than English will give opportunities to more citizens to appear in the exam and pursue law as a career, the Bar Council of India informed the Delhi High Court. The apex bar body stated its stand in an affidavit filed in response to a PIL seeking conduct of CLAT 2024 not only in English but also in regional languages.
The Bar Council of India (BCI) said it “supports” the issue raised by petitioner Sudhanshu Pathak, a law student at the Delhi University. The CLAT Exam 2024 is scheduled to be conducted on December 3, 2023. Candidates can fill the CLAT Application Form 2024 until November 3, 2023. The petitioner, in his PIL, has said CLAT (UG) examination “discriminates” and fails to provide a “level playing field” to students whose educational backgrounds are rooted in regional languages.
“Bar Council of India supports the issue raised by the petitioner for conducting the CLAT examination in languages other than English as the same will give opportunities to more citizens of the country to appear in the exam and pursue law as a career,” the affidavit by the BCI said.
The Bar Council in its response said that according to the Legal Education Rules, English has to be the medium of instruction in both the integrated five-year and three-year law courses, but it is open to the institution to allow instruction in any language other than English.
"If the medium of instruction of legal education is other than English, students have to take English as a compulsory paper," it added. The BCI further informed that the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) is held in 23 languages, including English, Hindi and other regional languages.
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