Nagaland Law Students’ Federation (NLSF) has alleged that students of the three private law colleges in Nagaland were subjected to severe anomalies in their academic career which begins from low marking system to erroneous mark sheets besides many others coupled by the absence of a government law college in the state.
The newly elected NLSF team members for the term 2016-2018 informed this during a press conference held at its office chamber Kohima.
NLSF president Imlibenla Lemtur, the first women president of NLSF, pointed out a series of grievous anomalies in their educational system for many past years.
While lamenting that delay in declaring results with erroneous mark sheet has become regular for law students in the state, she said owing to the delay in declaring exam results many students could not appear the Bar Council of India exam the same year.
Lemtur also said the students have been experiencing almost 70% errors in the mark sheet wherein even their names, registration and roll numbers were wrongly entered leading to much confusion among the students.
She said it was surprising that even those students who do not appear exams are declared passed while many students expecting good marks get poor marks.
The president also pointed out that even the question papers was below standard and repetitive where out of 10 questions students were suppose to answer six questions. She explained that choices were very less while choosing questions as students cannot write the same answer for three questions (only descriptive).
Another issue she mentioned was the low marking system. Lemtur said till today in the history of law colleges (in three districts), only one student from City Law College in Dimapur has secured first division and rest were listed in second division.
She said for LLM it requires minimum 50-55% and many Naga students were unable to go for further studies because of the low marking system. She cited an instance where one student applied for reevaluation and found that in one of the answer, “Zero-half” was awarded and questioned what “Zero-half” mark means.
Lemtur informed that the faculties of the three law colleges checks the answer scripts and raised questions over their (teachers) intentions as many law students in the state could not compete with others. General secretary of NLSF Medochütuo Kiewhuo informed that state government has agreed to the demand for establishing a government Law College by 2020 and added that their demand for setting up of separate law department in NU would be continued.
He said all the anomalies takes place due to the absence of law department in the NU and maintained that NU should take serious note and follow the Bar Council of India directives to set up separate department.
Kiewhuo added that NLSF will launch RTI campaign in all the departments in the state as their action plan committing to fight till issues were resolved and also to conduct Moot Court which will allow the young law students to get practical experiences.
The new team comprises of eight members.