LAWYERS WRITE TO BCI SEEKING FEE CONCESSION IN PRIVATE LAW SCHOOLS AMID OUTBREAK OF COVID-19

Advocate Satyam Singh Rajput, Supreme Court Of India wrote an open letter to Chairman of Bar Council Of India regarding the fee concession to the law students of the private and unaided colleges/universities across India in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The latter has been signed by Advocate Satyam Singh Rajput with Advocate Amit Kumar Sharma, Advocate Shivam Singh, Advocate Arti Singh, Prateek Sharma, Final year law student of Delhi University and Diksha Dadu, 3rd year law student of Amity University.

Mr. Rajput in his letter said that unfortunately private and unaided law colleges/universities are demanding upcoming semester fee from the students. The entire world is grapping with the outbreak of CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19). The entire country is in the lockdown. Common citizen are confronting with aggravated economic hardships. Citizens are finding it difficult to make ends meet. Parents are not in the position to pay lump-sum fee demanded by private and unaided colleges/universities. The demand of semester/annual fee on the part of the said colleges/universities per se is unethical and unwarranted.

Mr. Rajput also said that he has received various complaints from law students from almost every length and breath of India.

He has requested the BCI Chairman Mr. Manan Kumar Mishra to look in to the matter and try to resolve the grievances of the law students at the earliest so that they are not deprived of their right to get legal education.

By Shubhi Singhal of Law College Dehradun