BCI to protest against Higher Education and Research Bill

Updated on: Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Bar Council of India(BCI) will hold a nation wide protest on January 20, to oppose "tooth and nail" inclusion of legal education in the Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011, its chairman said.
 
Ashok K Parija, the Chairman of BCI, said the provision for inclusion of legal education in the bill, which was introduced by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, in the Rajya Sabha on December 29, last year, "usurps" the powers of the regulatory body for legal education.
 
"BCI resolves to oppose tooth and nail this (inclusion of legal education) draconian and highly condemable proposal contained in the bill," Parija said at a press conference here.
 
"The council has thus unanimously resolved and called the lawyers all over India to observe January 20, 2012 as a protest day against the Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011," he said.
 
Parija, however, said the protest was not a "strike" and it was left to the state councils to decide on the manner of protest adding that "though the feedback we (BCI) get is that the lawyers will abstain from attending the court".
 
He also expressed displeasure and "anguish" over the manner in which the Bill was cleared by the cabinet saying that BCI being the regulatory body should have been consulted.
 
Responding to a question on Law Ministry's role, Parija said, "We made several representations to the Law Ministry. Our administrative ministry (Ministry of law and Justice) should have consulted us before. For reasons good or bad, it did not happen".

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