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30% quota for girls in nat’l law schools

Seethalakshmi S | TNN

Bangalore: Even as parliament dithers on introducing onethird reservations for women, top national law schools in the country are all set to implement a 30% quota for girls from the next academic year.
The seven premier law schools in the country have also decided to offer a common law admission test (CLAT) for admission to their LLB and LLM courses on May 11, 2008. Earlier, individual law schools used to conduct their own entrance tests. However, the L-schools have set 50% as the cut-off for students to qualify for a seat.
Simply put, no matter how well a student performs in CLAT, she will not be able to secure a seat if her qualifying examination marks are lower than 50%.