tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56855635400958766632024-03-19T09:24:02.489+05:30IDIA: Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal EducationThe IDIA project seeks to find ways to reach out to students from economically poor or underprivileged regions of India, sensitize them to law as a career option and help those interested to acquire admission to the top National Law Universities.Ramanujhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18268415677051044519noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-42852675532069818582012-06-11T19:25:00.002+05:302012-06-21T22:46:53.600+05:30IDIA Scholar files writ at Gujarat HC; gets interim stay order for a seat at GNLU<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Successful IDIA scholars reflect a truly diverse mix, comprising candidates from various backgrounds (children of farmers, stone quarry workers, shopkeepers and clerks) and hailing from various states such as Karnataka, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkand, Rajasthan, Bihar, Manipur and Mizoram.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Each one of them has a truly inspiring story.But the most inspiring among this year's scholars is perhaps that of <b style="line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-IN">Donnie Ashok, a boy from Kolkata </span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 18px;">who literally and metaphorically rose from the ashes to secure a seat at one of India’s prestigious National Law Universities (NLU’s), namely GNLU (or Gujarat National Law University). Donnie’s father is a painter by profession with an annual income of less than Rs. 1.5 lakhs.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">Owing to severe financial problems faced by his family, Donnie’s schooling has been erratic, to say the least. He undertook various types of errands to earn a living, but the money he earned was a pittance compared to his school fees. He could not fund his education, and had to drop out from Class 12.</span></div>
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Fate intervened and he heard about the Increasing Diversity to Increase Access (IDIA) from Ramanuj Mukherjee, a friend of his sister’s, who went on to become his mentor and guide. Ramanuj was an active member of IDIA and a topper of the law entrance at NUJS as well. Donnie scored the first rank in the IDIA Aptitude Test (a test conducted all across India to select deserving underprivileged children that IDIA would support) and was admitted into the programme immediately. IDIA paid his school fees and put him back in school, after persuading his Principal to re-admit him to Class XII despite the delay. <u></u><u></u></div>
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By virtue of sheer grit and single-minded determination, Donnie not only studied for his class XII boards but also burnt the midnight oil to prepare for CLAT (with the help of training by IDIA volunteers along with its partner LST, a leading CLAT coaching centre). Finally his prayers have been answered and hard work rewarded with an All India General Rank of 427 in CLAT 2012. With this rank, the CLAT committee allottted him for admission to the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar<span lang="EN-IN">.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Unfortunately, rather than fostering social justice and encouraging this underprivileged boy by securing his admission, GNLU tripped him up with their highly arbitrary admission criteria and refused him admission. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">Late last year, GNLU imposed a new eligibility criterion for admission, stating that a student who does not clear class 12 in the first shot is not eligible for admission at GNLU. As you can appreciate, such a condition is clearly arbitrary and bears no relation to the aptitude of a particular child for the study of law. It is particularly ridiculous, since the main CLAT exam itself </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">can be taken any number of times. Further, the said condition in the brochure goes against GNLU's own regulations which simply require that at the time of coming for admission, the student must have fully passed his or her 12th exams with no back papers. It does not say anything about whether or not the person should clear Class 12 in the first or second shot. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">Unfortunately, the GNLU admin seems to suggesting that an informational brochure prevails over the Regulations passed under the GNLU Act. We therefore took the matter to court and the Gujarat High Court (Justice KS Jhaveri) immediately ordered that a seat be left vacant at GNLU, till the matter is resolved. The court has asked both parties to appear tomorrow, wherein we hope that it will pass orders on the relief sought: namely that this highly arbitrary and illegal condition be struck off and Donnie be admitted to GNLU. We filed this writ only this morning, and the court passed the order this afternoon. We're hoping that the matter will be taken to its logical conclusion tomorrow and that Donnie's seat will be fully and finally secured. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">IDIA is grateful to a whole lot of lawyers and law students who came out in support of this effort. </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">Dr. Mukul Sinha appeared </span><i style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">pro bono </i><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">for Donnie and was assisted by Mr. RR Mankad. </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">Mr. Protik Prakash Banerjee (Junior Standing Counsel, State of West Bengal), Mrs. Pushpa Menon (Advocate, Madras High Court), Mr. Debesh Panda (Advocate, Supreme Court of India) and PXV Law Partners (Mr. Deepto Roy, Mr. Pingal Khan, Mr. Madhukeshwar Desai, Ms. Rukmini Das) gave us legal opinions in less than 12 hours from GNLU's rejection of Donnie's application. The writ petition was drafted by Mr. Debesh Panda, Mrs. Amrita Panda, Mr. Sannoy Das, Mr. Deepak Raju and Ms. Rukmini Das. </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">We also thank a retired Judge who not only gave Donnie legal advice, but also provided Donnie with accommodation and warm hospitality. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">You can download from the petition from </span><i style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://idialaw.com/files/Writ%20Petition.pdf">here</a></i><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">.</span></div>
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</div>Raghul Sudheeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852770423262702638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-55845846344926383102011-09-28T23:10:00.000+05:302012-06-21T20:42:57.026+05:30Internships for IDIA (INAT) Team<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;">What is the IDIA?</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">The IDIA
(Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access) Movement started off under the
leadership of Professor Shamnad Basheer of the West Bengal National University
of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) as a movement to eliminate the inequities of
education. Some very disturbing statistics reflected a complete lack of
diversity, with a majority of the students clearing the entrance tests for
these Universities hailing from the upper middle socio economic class bracket.
The IDIA team set itself up, first in NUJS, and then in other National Law
Schools throughout the country, as an attempt to question and change these
statistics. The aim is to provide access to the resources required to crack the
entrance exam to students from marginalized communities and regions, who would
not be able to get access to them otherwise.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">Local IDIA
Chapters have been set up in different parts of India. These local chapters
have conducted aptitude tests in the respective states, and have started an
intensive training programme for those who did well, and those who are
interested in pursuing law as a career. A lot of students were found to be
initially very apprehensive about their career prospects, but enough
information was disseminated in this regard to convince most of them about the
advantages of this career choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">IDIA also selects
students for the training program through its exam called IDIA National
Aptitude Test which is held every year in several centres across the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">Last year INAT helped us select some of the most deserving
IDIA scholars. 14 out of the 50 scholars trained by IDIA made it to various
National Law Schools, including NLS, NALSAR, NUJS, NLIU, GNLU etc. through CLAT
2011.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">Interning with the
IDIA will mean being part of the teaching process for the IDIA scholars and
interacting with IDIA scholars and other volunteers. This is an immense
opportunity, more so for law students, because the IDIA Scholars are not only
exceptionally bright, but also extremely keen to learn about the Law, and
understand its various facets. While most students would cherish the process of
teaching in itself, the IDIA experience is that much more of a process of
self-discovery in that it deals with children who have managed to devise
incredibly ingenuous ways of learning for themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">This internship presents the opportunity of being part of
something extraordinary, something that might change the face of legal
education in the country, but will definitely change your paradigm of life.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">All interns will
be expected to help with a wide variety of work. For instance, we require
volunteers to help us with registration for INAT which would be conducted on 6<sup>th</sup>
November 2011 in 16 cities in the country. Volunteers would be required to be
available on phone, take calls from students who have queries regarding law as
a career, National Law Schools, scholarship provided by IDIA etc. They would be
working for a month as a part of the registration team for INAT, helping
students get registered for the exam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">Volunteers do not need to be based at any particular location
in India - they would only be required to be available on phone and email
everyday during this one month.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">No specialised
experience or training is required and they can feel free to come up with new,
innovative modes of reaching out to more students and schools across the
country to spread the word about INAT and in turn help us select the brightest
students as IDIA scholars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">This would be a <b>paid internship</b> and all interns found
to have worked in a committed manner by the end of the stipulated time period
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their efforts signed by Professor Shamnad Basheer, on behalf of the IDIA
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">For further
details, feel free to email Diptoshree Basu at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:dbasu3@gmail.com"><span style="background-color: white;">dbasu3@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> or call at 09831063675.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Raghul Sudheeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852770423262702638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-12196881816605894502011-09-28T00:31:00.000+05:302011-09-28T00:34:02.666+05:30Intern with IDIA, Sikkim Chapter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access) Movement started off under the leadership of Professor Shamnad Basheer of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) as a movement to eliminate the inequities of education. Some very disturbing statistics reflected a complete lack of diversity, with a majority of the students clearing the entrance tests for these Universities hailing from the upper middle socio economic class bracket. The IDIA team set itself up, first in NUJS, and then in other National Law Schools throughout the country, as an attempt to question and change these statistics. The aim is to provide access to the resources required to crack the entrance exam to students who would not be able to get access to them otherwise.</span><br />
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Raghul Sudheeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852770423262702638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-61930105953630913652011-07-29T22:19:00.011+05:302011-08-08T11:27:14.901+05:30Join IDIA – Change your life as well as others!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">Karthika Annamalai, Ria Shiuli, T. Andalu and Shivandu Pandey are just a few among the many names who are no less than student icons in themselves now!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">Brush</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"> up your knowledge about the legal goings-on in case you don’t know who they are, these are all those real proud heroes of their lives, who have showcased extraordinary grit and courage to nip adversity at its bud and take life as it came to them! Meet the IDIA Scholars, who cracked the CLAT 2011, and are now in the premier National Law Universities in India. All of them hail from lesser than modest backgrounds, having been subjected to the harshest hardships in life. Armed with nerve-cracking guts in their blood, steering through life’s challenges, they now stand with their heads held high, among those multitudinous well-fed, well-to-do kids, who have made it to the NLUs. </span><br />
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IDIA is what has brought in all the difference and spark to their lives. We started out as a pan-India student movement in making quality legal education accessible to the poorest of the poor in the country, and now in the second year of our existence, are very much alive and kicking! We have met with tremendous success in our very first year, and thanks to the coverage given by various news papers, be it <a href="http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/22/stories/2011062264290500.htm"><i>The Hindu</i></a>, <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/for-a-more-cohesive-society/821501/"><i>Indian Express</i></a>, or the <a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-03/kolkata/29732756_1_clat-nujs-law-schools"><i>Times of India</i></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">, we have received widespread applause and publicity. Our good work continues to be appreciated by all the quarters in the legal fraternity till date.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">We have had an excellent set of people working with us and the success rate speaks for itself, of their wide capabilities and competencies. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"><b>The present Directors of State Chapters for the tenure 2011-12 are:</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Darshana Mitra – West Bengal Chapter - <a href="mailto:darshana.mitra@gmail.com"><i>darshana.mitra@gmail.com</i></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Apoorv Shah – Gujarat Chapter - <i><a href="mailto:apoorv.phoenix@gmail.com">apoorv.phoenix@gmail.com</a></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Prateek Mohapatra – Uttar Pradesh Chapter - <i><a href="mailto:prateek.rmlnu@gmail.com">prateek.rmlnlu@gmail.com</a></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gowri Harikumar – Kerala Chapter -<i><a href="mailto:gowrivrh@gmail.com">gowrivrh@gmail.com</a></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">6.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rachit Ranjan – Bihar Chapter -<i><a href="mailto:ranrachit@gmail.com">ranrachit@gmail.com</a></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">7.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> S</span>rishti Aishwarya – Jharkhand Chapter - <i><a href="mailto:silkjutes@gmail.com">silkjutes@gmail.com</a></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">8. Abhishek Kumar - Rajasthan Chapter - <i><a href="mailto:abhi.nlu@gmail.com">abhi.nlu@gmail.com</a></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">9. Jwala Thapa & Joseph Renthlei -North East Chapter - <i><a href="mailto:jwaladthapa@gmail.com">jwaladthapa@gmail.com</a></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">10. Amartya Bag, Sayobani Basu & Vivek Jain - Orrisa Chapter - <a href="mailto:abag.kls@gmail.com"><i>abag.kls@gmail.com</i></a></span><br />
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Not only the State Heads, we also have a wonderful team looking after the National Verticals. Here are their honorary mentions:</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Research and Policy – Prajna Mohapatra (NUJS)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>IDIA Disability – Anusha Reddy and Vaishnavi (NUJS)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>IDIA Training – Sumitra Suresh (NALSAR) and Srishti Goyal (NUJS)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Core Advisory and Implementation – Raghul Sudheesh and Arnab Roy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Funding – Jhalak Kakkar (NUJS)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">6.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Admissions and Scholarship – Megha Kaladharan (NLSIU)</span><br />
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Call for Student Directors – State Chapters and All-India Verticals</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">At the behest of this second year of our existence, we are all set to spring in some fresh blood into our workforce! Now, when this is the lightening speed with which we are moving ahead, why not join us and be a part of history in the making? Why not spearhead the change you so-dearly want to see in the world? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">We ideally expect our IDIA Directors to possess the following qualities:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Should be proactive and willing to take initiative</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Should be bold enough to take decisions under pressure of time and/or other factors</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Should possess strong inter-personal skills and should be able to lead teams</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Should be able to think out of the box and should be innovative</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Most importantly, should be committed to the IDIA cause and should be able to spend a significant amount of time on IDIA consistently throughout the year. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">We invite applications for the post of State Heads to kick-start new chapters and for following posts in the All-India Verticals:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Website</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sensitization</span><br />
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Send in your CV and expression of interest to <i><a href="mailto:idiadiversity@gmail.com">idiadiversity@gmail.com</a></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"> to be a part of our team. Those of you who are interested in being a part of Publicity and Media - All India Vertical; please mail your CV's to <i><a href="mailto:raghulsudheesh@gmail.com">raghulsudheesh@gmail.com</a></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">We are also looking for people to join the specific teams which already have team leaders listed; so if you are interested in joining those specific teams please email the team leaders directly in their id's listed against their names.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">You are most welcome to give in your inputs as to how best you can serve our purpose and how best can IDIA be improvised. If you wish to be a part of our Google group, drop in your mails to Shambo Nandy at <a href="mailto:shambonandy@gmail.com"><i>shambonandy@gmail.com</i></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4a442a;">, and stay updated with our new programs and ideas. </span><br />
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IDIA Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684495390362688421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-6808088320866948002011-06-20T12:00:00.000+05:302011-06-20T12:00:58.643+05:30My Past Can’t Tie Me Down says Karthika Annamalai – The IDIA girl who made it to NUJS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As soon as I would get up each morning, my cousin would wash my face and my auntie would give me curd to eat my rice with. I would then follow my cousin, whom I was very fond of, to graze our cow. He would teach me to pet and feed our cow. Sometimes we would go on small adventures to our neighbor’s mango fields or we would go on top of the village rocks to eat prickly pears, not minding that they were staining our clothes pink and that the small thorns were in our hands and tongue. It was during these times that I would forget that my mother, along with my six-month-old brother, were somewhere far away searching for work. She had to give up being a housewife and look for work to support our family once my father had passed away. When I was bored, I would remember my mother with so much longing and loneliness that I would start to cry.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When I turned three, my mother sent for me. Like my aunt and uncle, she too had found work in a quarry. Our house had four granite slabs covered with mud for walls and stacks of neatly tied woven coconut leaves for a roof. After settling down here, I would walk about the feces covered mud roads with my skirt lifted shamelessly over my head to avoid the merciless sun and the rising dust and smoke from the quarry. Otherwise, I would follow my mother down the steep quarry where I would sit a few meters away, watching her frail body shatter stones with a heavy hammer. I suppose it was during a time like this, though many years later, that a piece of stone hit me on my forehead. Curious and bored, I picked it up. It was crudely shaped like a heart and had tiny specks of gold on it. It is one among the three things I keep on my bed for good luck. It is a tangible reminder of where I came from.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Two other items that are constantly present on my bed are reminders of my present, and my future: my art supplies and preparatory books. If not for Shanti Bhavan, I would have little need for – or interest in – these things. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Since being admitted to Shanti Bhavan at the age of four, the hours I spent letting my imagination run wild instead of going for physical training session has resulted in me receiving various awards and titles within my school for outstanding performance in the field of visual art. Now, drawing abstract pictures, being recommended by many teachers and classmates to make posters, and being asked to make cards for various people is a medium through which I express my passion for art. This is a talent that would not have been nurtured or encouraged had I not attended Shanti Bhavan.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The preparatory books, on the other hand, are scattered on my bed because I am soon appearing for my entry into a law college. I decided years ago that I wanted to be a human rights lawyer, fighting against the many social injustices that exist in India, more than a handful of which I have witnessed myself in my family and community. The values instilled in me at Shanti Bhavan – those of humility, honesty, and generosity – have all impressed upon me the necessity to always work to help those who are less fortunate than me in any way possible. This is where my desire to work as a human rights lawyer stems from. I also hope that working in the field of law in India will provide me the skills I need to one day alleviate poverty and injustice on a broader scale, hopefully in a political position in India. Ideally, I will one day become the Prime Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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Every item I cherish communicates much about me. As I reflect on the past 14 years of my life, I realize they are tied to one of my two lives – that of a village girl who grew up in a world of sadness and desperation, devoid of hope, and the other of an educated and confident woman, who was given an amazing opportunity to aspire. Both of these lives compose who I am, and equip me with the knowledge to one day change the country I live in.</span></div>Raghul Sudheeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852770423262702638noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-29747302286985698852011-06-14T15:36:00.002+05:302011-06-14T15:40:07.015+05:30IDIA needs Vibrant Team Leaders to head the Question Papers Preparation Wing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">IDIA urgently needs a team that will prepare exam papers for training IDIA scholars this year. The team will consist of those who will prepare questions, as also those who will then prepare exams/tests from the question bank so created. We need a strong team leader to lead the “test” preparation aspect. We also need leaders to co-ordinate the process of preparing questions for:<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">English</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">2.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Maths</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">3.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Legal Reasoning</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">4.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Logical Reasoning</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">5.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">GK</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
We need people not only to deliver high quality questions and put together good quality tests, but to do so consistently month after month. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">This will be a paid vertical for IDIA and we will pay per question prepared by you. We will also pay for the time involved in assessing questions and putting together tests. At this stage, this is only a call for folks interested in taking on leadership positions. So if any of you are interested in being leaders for any of these aspects, please drop an email to <<a href="mailto:idiadiversity@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">idiadiversity@gmail.com</span></a>>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Please do send your CV to the above email ID and also list out any IDIA activities you’ve done this past year. </span></div></div>Raghul Sudheeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852770423262702638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-12645472318483168232011-06-14T15:18:00.002+05:302011-06-14T15:27:55.106+05:30Sensitisation at Government Higher Secondary School, Kattappana, Kerala<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US">The sensitisation session for the XII standard students of Government Higher Secondary School Kattappana was conducted on 3 June 2011. The school is located in Kattappana, a small town in Idukki district, Kerala. The headmaster and teachers of the school were welcoming. We had an opportunity to interact with the teachers of the higher secondary classes before we addressed the students. This was of great utility as we could get a clear picture of the academic as well as economic background of the students. This is the first higher secondary batch of the school and hence the teachers have put great hopes on these students. This school was named the Government Tribal School until a couple of years back but was recently renamed as Government School since considerable number of non – tribals in the area were also looking up to this institution for education. Most of these students are from very poor economic backgrounds and hence are forced to contribute to their family income. Hence many of them work as auto drivers, labourers in pepper plantations, waiters in catering services etc after their class hours and on holidays unlike their better privileged counterparts who spend these hours in various tuition centers and entrance coaching institutes. As we spoke about IDIA, the teachers were happy that new vistas were being opened up for these students as many of them could not even dream of higher education due to financial constraints.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US">The session for the students began at 2:30 pm. We had 41 students from both Science and commerce batches together, listening to us. A considerable number of students were absent owing to the heavy rains in the district. Taking into account what we had gathered from our interaction with the teachers, we began the session asking how many of them were desirous of pursuing their studies after XII standard. We were shocked to find that only about 50% of the students were desirous of being graduates. Hence the first task ahead was to convince them about the need for higher education. Proceeding further on an interactive mode, it was found that only a microscopic minority had decided upon what career they wanted to pursue. None of the students had even considered law as an option. This was surprising as almost everyone in the class were keen on law and lawyers which was reflected in random questions (which included questions on self defence, murder, various torts etc) which they wanted answered as soon as we entered their class room (and we had a tough time postponing most of these questions for another occasion due to paucity of time!) and yet none of them wanted to be lawyers! This, we soon found, was in-fact due to a few misconceptions about the prospects of this profession. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hik-oeh1x_A/TfcwfXGmKlI/AAAAAAAAANI/A2LQBILOcNg/s1600/Image0557.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hik-oeh1x_A/TfcwfXGmKlI/AAAAAAAAANI/A2LQBILOcNg/s320/Image0557.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US">They were then told about various opportunities available for a law graduate besides litigation which included working with law firms, other corporate firms, NGOs, PSUs and other entrepreneurial possibilities. This went a long way in removing their misconceptions and we found their interest growing considerably. The concept of National Law Schools and CLAT was new to them. They were briefed about the curriculum at law schools which included advanced syllabus, interactive classrooms, moot courts, internships etc. They were also told about the syllabus and question pattern for CLAT. By then we could see the enthusiasm and curiosity growing. We had queries coming up from all corners of the classroom which included the fees structure at law schools. They were disappointed when they heard about the fees structure at law schools. But they were soon relieved when we told them how IDIA could open the gates of Law Schools for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US">We wound up the session at 3:30 pm promising that we would come again to conduct the aptitude test to select students for intensive training. It was a great surprise to find a lot of students approaching us personally after the school hours sharing their hopes about reaching law schools. Many of them were determined and we are sure to see many of those faces in law schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US">Report by Shinsa PM and Telma Raju</span></div></div>Raghul Sudheeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852770423262702638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-15890747338587298782011-03-05T19:59:00.004+05:302011-03-05T20:14:10.390+05:30IDIA Sensitisation Programme, K.V. Vastrapur, Ahmedabad<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA2giIR5r9oeOUif7qmFuTii2Zl-VK94wfjLt9O43YGfcmMzDI4F2oevd9Qdb-1KIGQJOqH-GnL-sPtWv5w_kZYlV9PnQARBt3TQV3_s4gom8w43HRB4Rl9ceWZe0AKDgMl68eTsYZSbk/s320/09022011085.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580603737848517826" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The first visit to KV Vastrapur was made on 27th January 2011 by Aditi Sheth, Tridib Bose and Sanyukta Biswas. It was intended to take permission from the principal, Ms. Jamie James for conducting the CLAT awareness workshop for the 11th std students. She permitted and informed us to consult the Physics teacher Vandana who taught physics in 11th std, regarding the date and time of the workshop the legal and subsequent date for legal aptitude test. So to begin with, we told them the future prospective of studying law. Then we told them, the pattern of taking up streams in the 2nd year, so as to let them to know how even science can be an advantage to them. We explained the difference between an NLU and traditional law schools. We told them about the holistic approach towards legal education in NLUs especially adding the emphasis laid on projects, publications, moots, parliamentary debates, model united nations, committees etc. We finally told them about how CLAT and how to go about preparing for it. Then we told them about IDIA project. Its aim to increase cultural diversity at NlUs and efforts to draw marginalized section of students to the mainline. To touch upon humour, I had personally asked them to check good law movies such as To Kill a Mocking Bird and Erin Brockowitch.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The second visit was made on 2nd February 2011 by Aditi Sheth, Sukarn Singh Maini and Sanyukta Biswas to conduct CLAT awareness workshop. The batch consisted of 44 students from science background. The workshop took roughly 40 mins. The students made rather inquisitive and intelligent questions. 22 students showed keen interest in giving the legal aptitude test. We were informed to contact the biology teacher Moushumi who taught 11th std, for the names of those might be interested in giving the legal aptitude test.The test was conducted at K.V. Vastrapur, Ahmedabad on 9th February, 2011. 31 students appeared for the test. 4 of the team members namely, Tirth Bhatt, Shreyasi, Sanyukta Biswas and Vikrant Pachnanda conducted the test. After conducting the same, the papers were checked and 5 students were shortlisted out of which two has scored 23 on 35, two scored 20 on 25 and one scored 17 but got all her legal reasoning correct. When we met these five students in person, three said that they only gave the test to check their aptitude and that they were not interested in law. Out of these three, two also seemed not to have a problem with their income and also stated that they gave the test only to check their aptitude and that they were not interested in pursuing law. The remaining two seemed interesting and also fell within the low income bracket. However one of them has not responded back and the other is not interested in joining IMS although we did asign each of those two students mentors to assist them.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqXOLF8lx8AbPv9GvQ8oVBnnDeCRSv4W1XXjFGcxZK8MfSBF4sMOATF-ZwZinUf6OUQmKYYSMbpLAfWsHzfvBoM0tIq44n4IcY-xN29PcJgEWUvAimWq137Nc42c0x0H8rdDhvkz4Xw4/s200/09022011082.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580604949575709362" /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc-3Vnq_-myPAZxiEoI9gC_WMGnE25n3jwNKkZHf3FVk87fXdYxML7p7sh3a_ScyLiTt1uKUqkF9C2qd7ovfMD-HDdHi2eoJ39d2LgpHppf365LNTE4K7lf_n6tXjpaEKWrArZiYc9zxk/s200/09022011085.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580604942625201938" /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Report compiled by Sanyukta Biswas and Vikrant Pachnanda on behalf of IDIA Gujarat</div>Legal Leohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12771306049811190597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-76276694983410513932011-03-05T15:43:00.002+05:302011-03-05T15:48:16.189+05:30IDIA Sensitisation Programme at Kendra Vidyalaya, Annanagar, Chennai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SQIzF_RDCTU/TXIMi6rkytI/AAAAAAAAAMU/dWKVk48qRVI/s1600/DSC07153.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SQIzF_RDCTU/TXIMi6rkytI/AAAAAAAAAMU/dWKVk48qRVI/s320/DSC07153.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The first sensitisation programme of IDIA, Chennai Chapter was conducted in the Kendra Vidyalaya School at Annanagar, Chennai on 5th February, 2011. Mr.Naveen Kumar.M, final year student of the School of Excellence in Law, Chennai addressed the students of the 11th Standard. Around 70 students attended the programme. Mr.Ramamurthy, first year student of the School of Excellence in Law, Chennai also coordinated in conducting the programme. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mr.Naveen started his address by clearing the misconceptions that the young minds had about the legal profession. It was pointed out that ‘Law’ is no more the last resort for ambitious and aspiring students in the present day. The basic set-up of the National Law Schools and other reputed institutions </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was also highlighted.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The speaker explained about the prospective opportunities that law students would have in the upcoming years. An insight was provided about litigationin Courts, corporate firms and L.P.O’s and also about judicial services. The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">students who are very keen on the pay packages were informed that as a successful lawyer, one can make money certainly more than what other professionals can earn. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The students were informed about the primary goal of IDIA and encouraged to enter into the law schools instead of confining themselves in regular courses. The growth of the Indian Legal system, the lives of great members </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of the Bar like Palkivala, Chagla were discussed in the course of the programme. A sound message was sent that if our country is to be driven in the right direction as many right thinking people expect, it was possible only with the active support of members of the bar and the bench. Mr.Naveen also spoke about the scholarships available for poor students and the support that shall be extended by IDIA in this connection.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Further, the opportunities what a law school student could have like attending International moot courts, internships, debates and conferences was elucidated in the programme. Before the concluding remarks, the students were invited to clarify their queries. It was surprising to note that around 7 to 8 students had very interesting and thought-provoking questions. One girl student asked about opportunities for an academician in law schools. The speaker replied that if she gets into law teaching, she will certainly become one among the best law teachers of tomorrow. Most of the questions came from the girl students compared to that from the boys. The Principal and teachers were very accommodative and it is certain that the IDIA movement shall become a big success in Tamil Nadu.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></div></div>Raghul Sudheeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852770423262702638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-48086976760294364652011-02-14T11:21:00.005+05:302011-02-16T16:42:11.117+05:30Registration of the IDIA Trust<span class="Apple-style-span">Friday, the 4<sup>th</sup> of February 2011 was a momentous day for IDIA. For this was the day when the IDIA trust came into being, comprising of:<br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Prof. M.P.Singh, Vice Chancellor, WB</span>NUJS</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span">Justice Ruma Pal, ex Supreme CourtJjudge</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span">Shishira Rudrappa, Founder, Bar and Bench</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Shamnad Basheer, Minist</span>ry of HRD Professor of IP Law, WB NUJS</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span">The trust deed appoints Prof. Shamnad Basheer as the first managing trustee.</span></p> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJAIOeMMA4HjsXv2m_MIyl9QSoDAbXn2c2Bd9jp17-g_4AmAt_Og_qVV9pRuym9TAXMHasmZQxvVKyp7ErKfAijl8kJfgB6Jkm8dGBfU-QJlaQSdpbSgnQwHwONzpZyXc_F5U5GmXwVak/s320/DSC02020.JPG" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573419856788167026" /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span">The first meeting of the IDIA trust was held on the very same day at the National University of Juridical Science, Kolkata. The meeting was attended by all the trustees, namely, Prof. M.P.Singh, Prof. Shamnad Basheer, Mrs Ruma Pal and Shishira Rudrappa and also by the IDIA team leaders and volunteers present at NUJS. The meeting started with Prof. Basheer introducing the trustees to some of the IDIA team leaders and volunteers and thereafter each team leader was called upon to introduce his/her chapter and team before the trustees, in order to give them a fair idea about the work that has been undertaken by each of the chapters of IDIA.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span">Before the commencement of the presentations, the IDIA brochure prepared by Vivek Verma and Diptoshree Basu was handed out to each trustee.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The first presentation was by Diptoshree Basu who leads the Diversity at Home chapter and N</span>orth East chapter of IDIA</span>, followed by Arnab Roy who presented on the WB IDIA team. Thereafter Kumar Kislay introduced the IDIA Jitholi chapter to the trustees, Anusha Reddy on the Hyderabad chapter and Gazala on the Kashmir chapter. Priyanka Raj and Avisha Gupta presented on the training and question banks being created by IDIA for CLAT 2011. Prajna Mohapatra who heads the research and policy wing of IDIA elaborated on the various aspects on which IDIA has undertaken research and assisted the CLAT Committee 2011 to take decisions and make welcome modifications to CLAT 2011 paper.</p> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjYTRJMZMB88T3w40cmoBnTNF1nYSa1FOtg1Cn1BZea9gsPgPckSdf3SFOlEK40kbuDtJDdZXzcYnpoR81sUMH0bJfuG6jKU_VkkP3QHgus5OiMEoz-XnneRDK5CGTb4FExMaJMB_WSE4/s320/DSC02045.JPG" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573419866734185826" /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span">After the presentation, Prof. Basheer introduced the other functional chapters of IDIA (such as Karnataka, Rajasthan etc) who</span>se team leaders were not able to attend the meeting . Thereafter, the trustees interacted with the student volunteers and asked questions pertaining to the day to day functioning of the project. Mrs Ruma Pal suggested that IDIA must provide interest free loans to the IDIA scholars instead of providing full scholarships to them, given the current status of funds for the project. She also asked the students whether they have any provision for selecting girls as a part of the diversity objective. Mr. Rudrappa stressed on the need to document all the processes at IDIA so that it is easier for future teams to co-ordinate with each other and conduct all the processes without depending on any particular individual. Prof Basheer assured them that documentationwas being undertaken by each chapter and uniform formats being used by them to make the process more homogenous. </p><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pyqpat5ikXs/TVjD1bT-u8I/AAAAAAAAAHQ/ZDvpqLNyauI/s320/DSC02034.JPG" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573419861503032258" /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span">He also put forward the proposal of appointing a full time CEO from May 2011 who will oversee the functioning of the project on an all India basis.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span">The IDIA team thanks Debanjan Mandal, Sourav Bhagat and <!--[if supportFields]><span style="'mso-element:field-begin'"></span><span style="'mso-spacerun:yes'"> </span>CONTACT _Con-3768E137997 <span style="'mso-element:field-separator'"></span><![endif]-->Paroma Ghosh<!--[if supportFields]><span style="'mso-element:field-end'"></span><![endif]--> of Fox Mandal Associates, Kolkata for their help in drafting and registering the trust.</span></p>Legal Leohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12771306049811190597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-19783817411171795282010-12-04T10:24:00.000+05:302010-12-04T10:24:47.826+05:30Sensitization at St.Thomas sister schools<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We, Neha .M.Kurian and Sachin Sathyarajan, conducted presentations on law as a career option and also about the immense opportunities in store for them at the National Law Schools. Every year a good number of students from the St. Thomas family make it to the National Law Schools. However the level of awareness about the career option is considerably low among the student community especially among science students. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We were very excited to be back at our alma mater and speak in front of our teachers and juniors. The Principals, Career Counsellor and Faculty of both schools were very appreciative of our initiative and gave unconditional support for our endeavour. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During the interaction it was evident that almost 90 % of the students still believed that they wouldn’t be on their own feet with a good paying job after earning the degree. The students were unanimous in the opinion that the profession was a very stagnant and corrupt one. Only few knew that compulsory apprenticeship under a senior lawyer and evening classes were a thing of past. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We highlighted that students from science background can fare equally well and are at no disadvantage in contrast to public perception. We further told them that students with aptitude in this field should definitely give it a shot as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many students were inspired by the example of Shamnad<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Basheer himself who shared the same schooling and now has made such an impact at a young age. We specifically mentioned all the national law schools in India and also that the rankings published by certain magazines were flawed and not to be trusted. As expected, the varied exposure in form of internships, moot courts , debates and seminars which they would not find in other disciplines got them very excited. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KCACNYslDEI/TPnJJ52IzkI/AAAAAAAAALw/Cmsmz9U_d4A/s1600/DSC03753.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KCACNYslDEI/TPnJJ52IzkI/AAAAAAAAALw/Cmsmz9U_d4A/s320/DSC03753.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The attractive salary packages did not easily sink in and many doubted whether we were bluffing. Several civil services aspirants came forward and asked about specific benefits to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sheer diversity of opportunities after the law course made many engineering aspirants give it a second thought as they wanted a more socially conscious field.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KCACNYslDEI/TPnJby_K5RI/AAAAAAAAAL0/Dg9_S5twDqM/s1600/IDIA01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KCACNYslDEI/TPnJby_K5RI/AAAAAAAAAL0/Dg9_S5twDqM/s320/IDIA01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Several students expressed concern over the time aspect of preparing for CLAT as many were already attending other entrance coaching. Many expressed concern over the level of General Knowledge and Math questions for CLAT. We interacted with more than 350 kids and even though only a handful of them had started out with a decision to appear for CLAT, a huge number of them from all groups expressed genuine interest in CLAT and in Law at the end of the seminar. All in all it was a very positive interaction for both the students and for us and we saw a lot of hope for the field in the St. Thomas Schools. Viva St. Thomas!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>Raghul Sudheeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852770423262702638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-88831983652862295552010-11-16T23:43:00.002+05:302010-11-16T23:45:46.531+05:30Winds of ChangeHey,<br />The IDIA blog team has been brainstorming to make this blog more helpful and entertaining for all its present and future (hopefully) readers. Watch this space for more<br />Much love,<br />The IDIA blog teamHarinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10367090950243599866noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-50056732868464484832010-11-13T10:41:00.002+05:302010-11-13T10:45:37.099+05:30IDIA Jharkhand Sensitization Programme<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">IDIA Jharkhand Chapter kick started its first sensitisation programme on 25<sup>th</sup> of October, 2010 in Ranchi. Our team comprising of Nikhil Kaman and Srishti Aishwarya, firstly went to Oxford Public School. The school authorities appreciated our “IDIA” and were more than welcoming. We were allowed to give presentations in 11<sup>th</sup> standard which consisted of Science and Commerce sections. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">We first gave presentation in Commerce sections. We started on with asking students about what idea do they possess about law as a career option and what do they expect from their career. Their idea about law seemed to be limited to the traditional notion of three year course and most of them showed a preference towards the field of Management, BBA, BCA, C.S., etc.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">We began with telling them that what law as a career offers them. The thought of getting empowered and financial stability and security that the profession can offer, started catching their attention and interest. We went on to explain them about 5 year law course and about the National Law Schools and other law colleges that has five years integrated law course and the job prospects after that and the alluring packages offered by law firms. Special emphasis was laid on the fact that law offers them with myriad career opportunities ranging from jobs in law firms, International Organisations, NGOs, PRS, or getting into Judiciary Services and last but not the least, going for Litigation. We further explained them about CLAT and how to prepare for it, few students even noted down the question pattern as we discussed about it. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Our purpose of going there was elucidated to them and the whole concept of Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access project and the fact that we select students from under privileged background via an aptitude test and provide them with free of cost training for CLAT in IMS. We provided them with our contact details and requested them to go to CLAT website and IDIA blog and also to Clathacker.ning for getting a detailed idea about everything.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">After our presentation was over, we asked them if they had any query or question. It was wonderful to see students posing their question and showing interest, questions were raised about how to prepare for CLAT and when does the CLAT exam takes place. We gave replies to these questions to the satisfaction of students and took their leave then, thanking them for their patience and interest.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Thereafter, we waited during the recess break after which we had to give presentation in Science Sections. What was most encouraging was that during the break, two Science students of Standard 12<sup>th</sup> came to us, asking us about CLAT and IDIA after hearing about our presentation from their peers. The interest showed by them was amusing and confirmed that our effort to sensitize is not going in vein. They went contended after getting answers to their questions about IDIA, CLAT and how to prepare for it. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">After recess break we went to Science sections where all the students were either interested in Medicines or Engineering. When we talked about law as a career option, the first response was that they don’t want to get into the field in which people fight in Courtrooms!! We tried to break their stereotype views and gave them a broad idea about what law as a career is and the job prospects and opportunities. We then told them about CLAT and IDIA. The presentation went well and students were responsive, though it was hard to make them think out of the box.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">After giving our presentation we thanked the school administration and Mr. Hazra who is a teacher out there and who arranged everything, for their co-operation and whole hearted support.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">After Oxford Public School, our next destination was St. John High School where we went on 26<sup>th</sup> of October, 2010. The principal was cordial enough to allow us to give presentation. We addressed the mass of around 120 students of 11<sup>th</sup> standard, Science stream. We began with posing some question about what idea do they have about law as a career. All they knew about was the local law college out in Ranchi and seemed disinterested. Nevertheless when we began our presentation, telling them about the job prospects and other opportunities, followed by details about National Law School and other colleges like Government Law College, Symbiosis, they started evincing interest. In fact before we could move on to tell them about CLAT, question started pouring in about how to get into National Law Schools. We then told them about CLAT exam and the fields from which questions are asked in it. The major concern of the students was how to prepare for it. We suggested them to read Wren and Martin for Grammar and magazines like Competition Success Review, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Pratiyogita Darpan</i> for General Knowledge. We went on to tell them about Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access project and that we select students from economically weak background via an aptitude test and provide them with free training for CLAT in IMS. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">After our presentation was over, we asked students if they had any query. Apart from question about how to prepare for CLAT, an interesting question was raised by a student who asked that how can we help people and work for their rights after becoming a lawyer. We then elaborated on the fact that they can work with NGO’S, International Organisations like UN, Amnesty International and other Human Rights Organisation. We further gave our contact details and address of CLAT website, IDIA blog so that they can make an informed choice about their career.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">With this, our presentation for the day witnessed an end. We tried going to some other schools as well, while principals of few schools exuded hostility and did not allow us at all. Some other schools like Kendriya Vidyalayas were having their Mid- Term exams and so we were asked to come in the month of December. We plan to select students in the month of December and start training them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Apart from going to the schools to carry out sensitization programme, we used the medium of Radio to reach out to the masses. A programme on “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Vidhi Shiksha ka Mahatva aur Disha Nirdesh”,</i> talking about law as a career option and IDIA was given by me on Aakashvani, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand that was broadcasted on 28<sup>th</sup> of October, 2010. A very good response was evoked by the programme as told by the Programme- Coordinator at Aakashvani, Hazaribagh. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language: EN-IN">In the ending note, I would like to acknowledge the efforts of all the IDIA Jharkhand chapter members and </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%">would like to extend special thanks to Kumar Rahul for his sincere support and Nikhil Kaman for his help in carrying out the sensitization programme</span><span lang="EN-IN">.</span></p>Legal Leohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12771306049811190597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-56358166237936578862010-11-12T16:15:00.000+05:302010-11-12T16:15:56.641+05:30IDIA Internship in Hyderabad<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is the IDIA?<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">The IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access) Movement started off under the leadership of Professor Shamnad Basheer of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) as a movement to eliminate the inequities of education. Some very disturbing statistics reflected a complete lack of diversity, with a majority of the students clearing the entrance tests for these Universities hailing from the upper middle socio economic class bracket. The IDIA team set itself up, first in NUJS, and then in other National Law Schools throughout the country, as an attempt to question and change these statistics. The aim is to provide access to the resources required to crack the entrance exam to students who would not be able to get access to them otherwise.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What does the IDIA do?<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">Local IDIA Chapters have been set up in Kolkata, Jodhpur, Bangalore, Lucknow, Kochi, Hyderabad and many other places. These local chapters have conducted aptitude tests in various schools for the underprivileged, and have started an intensive training programme for those who did well, and those who are interested in pursuing law as a career. A lot of students were found to be initially very apprehensive about their career prospects, but enough information was disseminated in this regard to convince most of them about the advantages of this career choice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In addition, the IDIA has been pushing relentlessly for reforming the CLAT. These concerted efforts have resulted in the CLAT Committee agreeing to various affirmative measures—for instance, removing the section on static general knowledge, and legal knowledge completely from the paper. The rationale is to test the aptitude of the students, rather than the knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Hyderabad Chapter<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Hyderabad Chapter is particularly interesting, since it is the only centre in the country where an effort is being made to increase access to legal education to the disabled. For this purpose, a school for the visually impaired, Sai Junior College, has been adopted in Raniganj. This school is run by the Devnar Foundation which is headed by Padma Sri Saibaba Goud who is also the President for the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness (NSPB). Ten students have been selected as IDIA Scholars, who are to receive free training for the CLAT. Laptops have been bought for these students, so that digitized study material can be converted to audio format to facilitate learning for them. Classes have recently commenced in all five subjects for these students as part of their training.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What Will Interning With the IDIA Mean?<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Interning with the IDIA will mean being part of the teaching process for the IDIA scholars. The subjects to be taught include English, Logical Reasoning, Legal Reasoning, General Knowledge and Maths (grade ten levels). This is an immense opportunity, more so for law students, because the IDIA Scholars are not only exceptionally bright, but also extremely keen to learn about the Law, and understand its various facets. While most students would cherish the process of teaching in itself, the IDIA experience is that much more of a process of self-discovery in that it deals with children who have managed to devise incredibly ingenuous ways of learning for themselves. This internship presents the opportunity of being part of something extraordinary, something that might change the face of legal education in the country, but will definitely change your paradigm of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Requirements<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All interns will be expected to help with a wide variety of work. For instance, they may be expected to conduct weekly classes, act as scribes for practice tests, help in analysis of test results etc. The internship programme will extend to at least four weeks. All students who have graduated from school, and are currently enrolled in a course in Law or are graduates from the same, are qualified to apply. Selections are subject to the discretion of the Internship Cell. No specialized experience or training is required and you can feel free to come up with new, innovative modes of teaching and working. The <b>interns are required to work in Hyderabad</b> under the Hyderabad Chapter during the months of <b>November and December</b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All interns found to have worked in a committed manner by the end of the stipulated time period will be granted certificates for their efforts signed by Professor Shamnad Basheer, on behalf of the IDIA Initiative.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For further details, feel free to email <a href="mailto:anushareddy92@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">anushareddy92@gmail.com</span></a> or call at 09163787994 or 09163787987<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</div>IDIA Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684495390362688421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-1064647240630683872010-11-07T12:20:00.000+05:302010-11-12T14:10:29.474+05:30Results of the IDIA Question Making Competition<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After having received entries from law colleges across the country, the IDIA family is delighted to announce the results for the IDIA <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://idially.blogspot.com/2010/08/idia-question-making-competition-legal.html">Legal Reasoning Question Making Competition.</a></span> The first place is bagged by Mohit Maheshwari of NLU, Jodhpur. The second place is shared by Nihal Joseph and Shrishti Goyal of NUJS. And in the third place is Sanjay Gupta from GLC, Mumbai. The winning entries carry with them cash prizes worth Rs. 6000. We’d like to thank all the participants for their enthusiastic response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Tanuj Kaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266344763612394160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-87147688510293677992010-11-07T12:08:00.000+05:302010-11-12T14:34:42.213+05:30Hyderabad October Update<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The Hyderabad IDIA Scholar Programme made its formal beginning on 12th October, 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sai Junior College for the Blind founded by the Devnar Foundation for the Blind</td></tr>
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</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">The team has selected ten visually impaired students from Sai Junior College founded by the Devnar Foundation based on an aptitude test conducted earlier this year. For the first time, the core group of IDIA-Hyderabad met each other and the students. Dr Saibaba Goud who heads the Foundation was kind enough to come down to interact with us and the students. Representatives from IMS were also there for most of the day, assessing the workability of the initiative.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aQVtpKInbaN-r2TxWc8ymZ3GwdVG1VaZRqZAvbgtwoLnxXaorsuztZDUQhlpoyu5J2rs37BhjBuTddnAjgjtmYyV2lA-V3iE_2MlnnaWWdbFCynolGwv5HYoDSbWcSC4ncfXTbW4znw/s1600/DSC01871.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aQVtpKInbaN-r2TxWc8ymZ3GwdVG1VaZRqZAvbgtwoLnxXaorsuztZDUQhlpoyu5J2rs37BhjBuTddnAjgjtmYyV2lA-V3iE_2MlnnaWWdbFCynolGwv5HYoDSbWcSC4ncfXTbW4znw/s320/DSC01871.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The purpose of the meeting was primarily to conduct another test to check strengths and weaknesses of the students; however, upon learning that the students had just completed a civics exam, we decided to postpone it. Both the team and the students were inquisitive, leading to a vibrant interaction. The students showed the team how they calculate maths questions, including algebraic equations, with the use of a Taylor Board. They engaged Shamnad Sir about the Ayodhya Judgment with information they had learned from the television. He encouraged the students to give reasons for their opinions, and asked them to distinguish between political and legal reasoning. The overall impression we got was that the students were keen to learn and very well aware of current affairs. Some of them expressed an interest in the Satyam scandal and were enthusiastic to find out about what was happening to Ramalinga Raju in court.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDaS3T1ixnC2v0_N0MZzGpHdTGRNaOkzuZzl_Ad_yMvGV3gRBRRi1ku19LevQWVvfq7ydO8-rGzp8OKIJvpFjMS-NMB_O-nyWlqXhDiuLKcBZvw4V10AwRopTDhM9EKECB1DGZkN1yqcQ/s1600/DSC01953.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDaS3T1ixnC2v0_N0MZzGpHdTGRNaOkzuZzl_Ad_yMvGV3gRBRRi1ku19LevQWVvfq7ydO8-rGzp8OKIJvpFjMS-NMB_O-nyWlqXhDiuLKcBZvw4V10AwRopTDhM9EKECB1DGZkN1yqcQ/s320/DSC01953.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Following Professor Shamnad, Rahul Sir, a distinguished corporate lawyer, explained the various career options available after a complete legal education. Amit Sir followed by sharing his experience as a visually impaired student in IIM-A. He empathized with the difficulties of studying as a visually impaired student, but emphasized the importance of continued higher education to motivate similarly impaired persons to aim for the skies. On his coat-tails, the students from NUJS and NALSAR talked about college life and various opportunities that arise from attending National Law Schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSBMhcc1OoPky-6lhA1cZCFsy4RWTvlVIaSrFQ-SOyEJCct_HUtkWdSl4xewi1uxgzrjfq35Z6_JU_2IfTTkOAEQWuN744zpuj6K5gLMl81R5PHHHqlcDsPnY-nbWg5iqeUvbXNHzFwnI/s1600/DSC01870.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSBMhcc1OoPky-6lhA1cZCFsy4RWTvlVIaSrFQ-SOyEJCct_HUtkWdSl4xewi1uxgzrjfq35Z6_JU_2IfTTkOAEQWuN744zpuj6K5gLMl81R5PHHHqlcDsPnY-nbWg5iqeUvbXNHzFwnI/s200/DSC01870.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">It was heartening to see how inspired the students were and how they constantly tried to voice their own opinions, and with some encouragement, take an active part in all discussions.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">After the test was conducted and results were declared, the students went through a session in which every question of the paper that they had solved was discussed in detail. The students of NUJS and NALSAR along with Shamnad Sir explained the answers, and the correct reasoning to get to those answers. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">The question that arose most often during this process was related to how one is to go about training visually challenged students. As Sir always says “We do not have all the answers right now but will overcome every obstacle that comes along our way.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjAQeK6WWcLTD1ceNrCVF9gt5-E3G6egctvmCbWtPIOPWf0R1fAY-qjH3PpoppRvsmVh249fGoX61eNWlC80O4haPkq0SD5_3rSOVk_ubfqq9e91hYDQ_NhGmlvJ49WoxjCg9Ox_WIBg/s1600/DSC01945.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjAQeK6WWcLTD1ceNrCVF9gt5-E3G6egctvmCbWtPIOPWf0R1fAY-qjH3PpoppRvsmVh249fGoX61eNWlC80O4haPkq0SD5_3rSOVk_ubfqq9e91hYDQ_NhGmlvJ49WoxjCg9Ox_WIBg/s200/DSC01945.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Although it took some re-assessment, the students are smart and extremely hardworking, with amazing powers of retention. Questions which tested reading comprehension - that is, generally lengthy questions - were answered correctly. What we realized is these students are very eager to learn and every question can be explained to them with a little patience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyZ0-IxkIjdQL6hHIfTl2kWX1KkS6Uo4N8Aydnje9yzEjNYsRwv2aet9XQmVjaZGzT8psOZsMIp2f5MaB4HnaJBiOmTbVYQT4YPUbFntgc4GzisEu2ZjYrL3gy3w8rNMYYjk1-KaWRaI/s1600/DSC01947.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyZ0-IxkIjdQL6hHIfTl2kWX1KkS6Uo4N8Aydnje9yzEjNYsRwv2aet9XQmVjaZGzT8psOZsMIp2f5MaB4HnaJBiOmTbVYQT4YPUbFntgc4GzisEu2ZjYrL3gy3w8rNMYYjk1-KaWRaI/s320/DSC01947.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The students were also provided with net-books (Samsung N150) with necessary software such as AMIS installed to make their learning simpler. The software installed converts the digitized study material to audio format to facilitate learning for them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">While most students would cherish the process of teaching in itself, the IDIA experience is that much more of a process of self-discovery in that it deals with children who have managed to devise incredibly ingenuous ways of learning for them-selves. This workshop presented us the opportunity of being part of something extraordinary, something that might change the face of legal education in the country, but will definitely change our paradigm of learning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption">Students of NALSAR and NUJS along with Padma Shree awardee Dr. Sai Baba Goud (chairman of Devnar Foundation for the blind), Prof Shamnad Basheer , Mr. Rahul (a leading lawyer) and Mr. Amit Jain of IMS along with students who have been selected as IDIA Scholars</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">By</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anusha Reddy,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hyderabad Chapter, IDIA</span></div>Tanuj Kaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266344763612394160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-55583039275039177362010-10-21T01:58:00.001+05:302010-11-06T22:18:04.110+05:30IDIA Rajasthan Sensitisation Conducted in Central Academy, Jodhpur<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF8iUqA2j0xIFAH-LRcSpUPCUWCw7tiyyFvTmfYM3FpKwnvHVtvQCSLirah67NYULjD6IRSvDSOI612b6EDNQhU1WdWqokfOtO9aoAlk0D1WcpwJ6mkBKeYkhyphenhyphenswklMYtMEG_aarVxThg/s1600/100_3851.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="150" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530834849765616370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF8iUqA2j0xIFAH-LRcSpUPCUWCw7tiyyFvTmfYM3FpKwnvHVtvQCSLirah67NYULjD6IRSvDSOI612b6EDNQhU1WdWqokfOtO9aoAlk0D1WcpwJ6mkBKeYkhyphenhyphenswklMYtMEG_aarVxThg/s200/100_3851.JPG" style="cursor: move; float: left; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; width: 320px;" width="200" /></a><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In furtherance of IDIA’s objective to reach out to students of all social strata and sensitise them about law as a career option, an orientation session was held at Central Academy, Chopasani branch, Jodhpur on 13.10.2010. An assembly of around 270 students studying in 11</b></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>th </b></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Standard (All streams) were briefed by a team of 4 IDIA members comprised of Niket Anand, Abhinav Prakash, M Abhijnan Jha and Nilesh Chaudhary. What was important to note that all the members were from 2nd yr and they were just awesome with the students. They enthralled the session magnificently well and had a very receptive audience.</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The team reached the school by 07:45 hours and immediately were called by the principal, Rashmi Bishnoi for a personal meeting and in the meanwhile issued instructions to students of class 11th to come to the assembly hall for the interactive session with the team. the principal in the meanwhile presented some queries that she herself had about CLAT and about national law colleges. The team was then asked to move to the assembly hall where the students were present in numbers which were more than what was expected. One of the teachers introduced the team to the gathering and described to them the purpose for the visit of the team. The team was welcomed on to the dais with applause.</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim1u5MLYJpxy2os3N2H07Ib9ND7to6nSJG1ifQDdB6Om1gcdKBWOyzVte3aRbi8UAwds-fl6sRCTyse-_ZO1excGeIyO6QRddoyo5POUa1831wp-adF282_Geq0yzduDtNFbf1BG5ep-M/s1600/100_3850.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530834858293353490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim1u5MLYJpxy2os3N2H07Ib9ND7to6nSJG1ifQDdB6Om1gcdKBWOyzVte3aRbi8UAwds-fl6sRCTyse-_ZO1excGeIyO6QRddoyo5POUa1831wp-adF282_Geq0yzduDtNFbf1BG5ep-M/s200/100_3850.JPG" style="float: left; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; width: 240px;" width="150" /></a><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The gathering of the students was first addressed by Abhinav Prakash (IDIA Volunteer) who started off with giving them a briefing about the IDIA project and describing the objectives of this initiative. He then went on to discuss Law as a career and presented to the students the advantages of pursuing Law as a career. Abhinav also dwelled upon the National Law Universities that offer the 5 year law course. The students were given an idea about the returns of following Law as a Career and the lures that it had in store. Abhinav also mentioned the future prospects of a career in Law. </b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>After having made the students feel motivated to pursue legal studies, Niket Anand (IDIA Core Committee IDIA Member) went on to the dais to describe the right ways to get into the best Law universities in India. He described the process of admission through CLAT (Common Law Admission Test). The students were told about the subjects related to which questions are asked in the CLAT examination and also about how they need to prepare themselves for it. Niket lay special emphasis on the topic of legal aptitude and mentioned to the students that it was the area that gives the edge to one student over others.</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>M Abhijnan Jha (IDIA Volunteer) later took over to discuss in detail the lures in the career of a lawyer. He described the pay packages that a new recruit at law firms receive and about the aspect of getting into the judicial services. He even described to them the extent of job security and told them the statistics for the campus placement that happened last year.</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>After discussing all aspects at length, Abhinav asked for any queries that might have arisen among the students. Hands were raised and some really interesting questions were put up before the team. The team was even asked to present a comparison between Law and Engineering as a career and to discuss the low number of seats that the Law universities provide in total. All these questions were answered to the satisfaction of the students.</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The students who were aspiring for a career in law were asked to stay back for a personally interactive session with the team. Quite a large number of students, girls and boys alike, stayed back to get some more doubts cleared about CLAT. The session at Central Academy came to an end with this interactive session getting over and the students adding something more to their knowledge of CLAT and its pursuance.<br />
</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>with this IDIA Rajasthan has successfully completed the first phase of sensitisation programme which we chalked out for this semester. The sensitisation programme conducted by 2nd year student was awesomely recieved by the audience. I sincerely acknowledge and laud the effort of Niket Anand, Abhinav Prakash, Abhijnan Jha, Nilesh Chaudhary who were part of the orientation programme.</b></span></span></span><br />
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</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Abhishek Kumar,</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Coordinator, IDIA Rajasthan</b></span></span><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></div>abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11858366866610763179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-88540632241783400192010-10-01T16:55:00.000+05:302010-11-06T22:28:42.346+05:30IDIA Rajasthan Sensitisation Reports<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUPrT-oKlKUC6YRzZCsFJ0vOK1RAV9aSHUfVpH5hH0pM5C7lSJMNIzarCh6B5wqwbcc6OWposxBHm4uZe50tW9_nTWAOmYVNvxjUvfF3EmotA1zhQB9gtec-ghPVUw8q1ao0FyaFh0okg/s1600/DSC02549.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523041311172184434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUPrT-oKlKUC6YRzZCsFJ0vOK1RAV9aSHUfVpH5hH0pM5C7lSJMNIzarCh6B5wqwbcc6OWposxBHm4uZe50tW9_nTWAOmYVNvxjUvfF3EmotA1zhQB9gtec-ghPVUw8q1ao0FyaFh0okg/s320/DSC02549.JPG" style="float: left; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; width: 320px;" width="320" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span style="font-size: 130%;">IDIA RAJASTHAN CHAPTER</span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">In furtherance of IDIA’s objective to reach out to students of all social strata and sensitise them</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> about law as a career option, an orientation session was held at St. Maheshwari School, Jodhpur</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> on </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">01.09.2010. An assembly of around 80 students studying in 12th Standard (Science stream)</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> were briefed by 7 volunteers. The students divided themselves in various groups: Geetanjali, Jai</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> and Sharddha interacted with a mixed group of students from Science and Humanities</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> backround. Sujoy and Piyush interacted with a bunch comprising mainly the Science Students.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> The third group was handled by student volunteers Aritra and Saumya.</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;"> The general perception among this group was that law is restricted to court-room advocacy and</span></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> drawing up of wills and deeds. They were initially not responsive to the discussion, which may</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> be attributed to their lack of awareness about the wide reach of law as a profession. However</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> once they were informed about the scope of work available to advocates in law firms or as inhouse counsels in corporate bodies, it managed to catch their imagination and made the briefing more interactive.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtuIQDxcJZQidOcX4LautBEDFVGIsqMxjaPuT4dOSoNSV6B8iDLt7JEZiAGjitE3eSTl0KXTH13mRmTNo-KKT9sFKzhDuEim2ugO4FqzyxVb0VO0ctETmXeCT-vz6PULSuun2xXF34R0E/s1600/DSC02549.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523041556638615586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtuIQDxcJZQidOcX4LautBEDFVGIsqMxjaPuT4dOSoNSV6B8iDLt7JEZiAGjitE3eSTl0KXTH13mRmTNo-KKT9sFKzhDuEim2ugO4FqzyxVb0VO0ctETmXeCT-vz6PULSuun2xXF34R0E/s320/DSC02549.JPG" style="cursor: move; float: left; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; width: 320px;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">The students were comparatively more familiar with other fields of study such as engineering</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> and medical, and could identify with the concept of entrance examinations for law schools only</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> after parallels were drawn with IITJEE and AIEEE. This volunteer found that most students were not clear about the eligibility criteria for giving CLAT, and some had not even heard of such an entrance examination for law schools before. A concise overview of CLAT was given and</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> doubts were cleared about the manner in which application forms for this examination are</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> distributed.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> The students expressed their reservation about taking additional coaching classes for law school</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> entrance examinations. They were encouraged not to view such coaching classes as an</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> unconditional pre-requisite for cracking such entrance examinations, and to resort to coaching</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> only if they felt the need for it.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><br />
Apprehensions were expressed by some students about the high fees charged by such law</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> schools, which were sought to be allayed by giving practical examples of educational loans and</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> scholarship schemes of certain institutions. Queries were also raised about when NLU Jodhpur</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> would start a scholarship scheme for funding the studies of meritorious students from</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> economically weak backgrounds.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> While wrapping up the discussion, it was heartening to find quite a few students whose interest</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> in law had been kindled by the briefing. Contact details of the coordinators heading the</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> Rajasthan chapter of IDIA along with the official website of CLAT was provided to the students</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> to ensure that any further doubts that they might have can be addressed.</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Report by team 2</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Our experience has been highly enriching and we assess the session as highly fruitful.<br />
We began</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> by asking the students as per their future plans. 80% of the crowd showed interest in pursuing</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> engineering while some 5-6 showed interest in business management. Interestingly there was</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> only one boy who showed interest in doing law and writing CLAT. The session then moved</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> forward with their notions of law, justice and advocates and as per their assessment of law as a</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> career option and existence of legal education imparting institutions, it proved to be too narrow.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> We started discussing about the varying options that would be available to graduating law</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> students in terms of monetary gains, job experience and exposure. Thereafter the life in a law</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> school was described to attract their interest and making them visualize of a life which provides</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> ample individual space and capacity to progress living in an extremely different environment</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> which teaches one immensely. In the end, the students were described about the modality of</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> CLAT and how the role of IDIA will shape up if they show interest in pursuing law after 12th</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> Standard.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><br />
The session was interactive and the students were inquisitive to know about the prospects of 3</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> year Law degree and how one can pursue it after B Tech. Further the interested student in law</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> raised an honest query as to how difficult is it to crack CLAT considering English can be a</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> trouble. However the team assured him by proving mathematically that command over all other</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> sections is adequate to get a decent rank in CLAT which assures entry in a good university.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><br />
There were other queries raised and it was indicative that their knowledge about law and its</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> prospects did get widen. The best part of the session was that the teacher present during the</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> lecture was also thoroughly impressed and he reiterated and seconded our opinion on planning</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> law as a career option instead of just following a ‘crowd mentality’. We requested the students to</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> further advertise and spread awareness about the multifold options as reflected by us which will</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> help us in a long way in targeting the parents, teachers and other influencers of students.</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><br />
I had the opportunity of addressing a group of around 40 students from the 12th grade. Initially, </span> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">was under the impression that I would be talking to a quiet audience but to my pleasant surprise, the students turned out to be quiet enthusiastic about whatever I had to tell them. </span> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">They were all Commerce students and on conducting a straw poll, I found that mostly wanted to be Chartered Accountants, with little or no inclination towards law. It was my endeavor then, to tell them the merits of interdisciplinary studies to draw their attention towards law. Hence, I started with the merits of a dual degree and how their interests could be streamlined even if they take up law as a career. The discussion was then focused on telling the audience about the various Law schools in India and the requirements in CLAT.</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">A lot of questions were posted on the feasibility as well as possible incentives. The students were</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> interested to know about the difficulty level of the CLAT question paper as well as the syllabus</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> for the same. Also, many were interested in knowing about the fee structure as well as the scope</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> for scholarships. I was also asked about my interest in Law as well scope of further studies. I</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> ended with a few snippets from life in Law school, although, the interest had been shifted to the</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> prospectus of NLU, Jodhpur that had been passed around for the students’ reference.</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">In furtherance of IDIA’s objective to reach out to students of all social strata and sensitise them</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> about law as a career option, the second orientation program was conducted at St. Patricks</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> school, Jodhpur on 17.10.2010. An assembly of around 70 students studying in 12thStandard</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (Science stream, Humanities and Commerce) were briefed by 5 IDIA volunteers including</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> Geetanjali Sharma (B.A LL.B), Azal Khan, Vijaya Sharma, Geetanjali Sharma (B.Sc LL.B) and</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> Mukul Agarwal.(Coordinator)</span><span style="font-size: 130%;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">The session started by volunteers asking questions on law and assessing the general perception of students about law. It was surprising that in a group of 70 (all girls students) around 15 of them seemed interested in pursuing law as a career option. This was indeed a greater number in</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> comparison to the first orientation program. However their knowledge and perception about legal profession were very faulty or juvenile. So although we found a crowd that was relatively more open to pursue different carrier options [maybe because students from humanities were also there] but they were very less aware about the practical realities of any profession.</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">It is vital to note some of the perceptions that the students had which was reflected through the</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> nature of questions they posed.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">A student pointed out that a student in IIT even if cannot prove himself to be at the top would get a decent salary of 1 lakhs per month. However in a law school one had to work like very hard</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> and then also they would get not more than 15 thousand. [the same was answered by providing</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> them statistics about pay packages of Microsoft, Google, Infosys, HCL etc and the top tier law</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">firms].</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> It was also pointed out by another student that law as a career option might not be conducive for</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> a woman as it is to a man. Another girl was surprised to know how lawyers can perform social</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> work and how the nature of contribution they make in the society, can actually affect the society</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> positively.</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">One of the girls also raised a doubt that the discussion would be fruitless unless their parents are</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> convinced as they still perceive law to be a third grade career option. [we extended all our</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> willingness to discuss with the concerned parents by medium of providing our contact details and</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> also requesting the school administration to follow on any such request made by students]</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> Most importantly students pointed out that law is associated with corruption and parents would</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> not want them to get into such a field. [we went into explaining different facets of law like</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">corporate law, IPR, income tax etc so as to show that a lawyer is not just what they have seen in</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Hindi movies]</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Hence the session was highly interactive and there were instances of mindboggling exercises to</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">convince them on certain aspects.</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">The teachers however seemed to be convinced and promised us to involve students in similar</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">discussions whereby they can make an informed choice to chose a particular career as they</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span style="font-size: 130%;">option.<br />
I sincerely acknowledge the IDIA Members and all those involved who conducted the senistisation Programee. I have a special word of appreciation for my Joint Coordinator Mukul Aggarwal. I laud the effort of Piyush Singh, Geetanjali Sharma ,Jai Sahai who worked relentlessly in order to conduct the orientation programme and gave final touch in the report.Finally,<br />
I sincerely thank Ankita Singh, for her effort in preparing the report.</span></span><br />
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</span></span> Abhishek Kumar,<br />
IDIA Coordinator,Rajasthan Chapter<br />
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</span> </div>abhishekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11858366866610763179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-88158171457921304122010-10-01T01:10:00.000+05:302010-10-01T01:13:35.560+05:30NUJS Students Take IDIA to CNLU; CNLU Embraces it Wholeheartedly<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE"></meta> <title></title> <meta content="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR"></meta> <style type="text/css">
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIB0KOye3ARGsV_AM_H2dx-uADewtDZas-aMHXalQn3LMdYXGaeIi4mGWOJsNfuHwW4VKF-NXjNAEUCaaiTj-ZbA_9xDBYPWY-P3yux2vmPbgC2_Qfy3xmPdcHof4AqFKk0eXWfhpDts/s1600/IMG_2137.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIB0KOye3ARGsV_AM_H2dx-uADewtDZas-aMHXalQn3LMdYXGaeIi4mGWOJsNfuHwW4VKF-NXjNAEUCaaiTj-ZbA_9xDBYPWY-P3yux2vmPbgC2_Qfy3xmPdcHof4AqFKk0eXWfhpDts/s320/IMG_2137.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The IDIA team comprising of NUJS students Ramanuj, Kumar Kislay and Kumar Rahul and Vishrut Jain (we) visited Chanakya National Law University (CNLU), Patna (them) on 16</span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> of September 2010. The introductory talk about IDIA was delivered by Ramanuj and Kumar Kislay. </span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span> </div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">On the first day itself we were able to convince and motivate around 55-60 volunteers from all the batches. The IDIA CNLU local chapter will be co-ordinated by Rachit Ranjan, an NUJS alumnus, who is a guest faculty there. The students in CNLU were having their mid-semester test hence a comprehensive plan of action could not be drawn. However, we made them aware of the broad area of work to be done by the students. It was proposed by them, that some of the students would like to visit NUJS sometime in November to observe as to how we function. </span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzdMBQ48kvD_GrDnR164pdkbLP1g-f852r1auJidKqkHyC9Tk3Z5adxWU3ynkDFbCoMoPqF0o-_-YI_N78FqVnwGzQboHKI6OLm38yTojWTzNXU37yTc_UW9Mc3m_3h0wRoUGZhBr2Z8/s1600/IMG_2138.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzdMBQ48kvD_GrDnR164pdkbLP1g-f852r1auJidKqkHyC9Tk3Z5adxWU3ynkDFbCoMoPqF0o-_-YI_N78FqVnwGzQboHKI6OLm38yTojWTzNXU37yTc_UW9Mc3m_3h0wRoUGZhBr2Z8/s320/IMG_2138.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">On the following day, we called a special meet of some of the members of senior batches with the help of whom we had managed to organize IDIA camp in CNLU. Since all of them had already been working with us in IDIA project for some time, we decided that they would constitute CORE GROUP for IDIA CNLU and would lead various teams as formed there. They were also advised to involve as many juniors as possible, so that IDIA could be continued even when they would have left after 1-2 years.</span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">We also talked to the VC as well as some other people of the university. Prof Dr. M.P.Singh had been kind enough to refer us to the Vice Chancellor of CNLU Prof Dr. A. Laxminath. The team met the Registrar and the VC of the university and had been apprised of the IDIA project. He accepted the project for the university and agreed to give all possible support to the project and the students involved. He was even open to the suggestion of instituting the project as a research program. For this he has asked us to send a detailed proposal. The report is being prepared and would be forwarded to him very soon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span> </div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Prof Laxminath has also kindly consented to allocate funds for the project if it seems feasible in the University and depending on the students’ participation. Further, with the help of Rachit Ranajn we have been able to create a fund for CNLU chapter. There are 10 of his friends working in Law Firms, who have agreed to contribute a sum if Rs 2000 every month for the IDIA Patna Chapter. We are also trying to bring in more people as funders.</span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The team further met the principal secretary HRD ministry, Bihar. Since, HRD ministry of the state is deeply involved in the functioning of CNLU it was important to bring them in the loop. The Principal Secretary for the HRD ministry has assured all possible help from their side. They will also help us in creating a fund. Further, they have agreed to provide a list of schools and co-ordinate with them for the sensitization program and further.</span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The team also met some sitting judges of Patna High Court. Justice Navniti Singh and Justice Jyoti sharan were kind enough to extend all their support and have promised to endorse the project. This would be helpful for spreading the project properly in the state and also for creating a substantial fund.</span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The IDIA CNLU team will start sensitization work in the first week of November. </span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div> Tanuj Kaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266344763612394160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-72832113431158685462010-09-13T05:13:00.000+05:302010-09-17T03:32:02.274+05:30SENSITISATION AT OSSANAM ENGLISH MEDIUM HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, KATTAPPANA, IDUKKI<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">The sensitisation session for the XI and XII students of Ossanam English Medium Higher Secondary School, Kattappana, Idukki was conducted on 2 September 2010. The Management and staff of the school were welcoming. The novel idea of sensitising pre- varsity students to take up law as a career option was appreciated by the headmaster of the school, Fr Dominic.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">It was sad that some of the schools in the district were reluctant to permit the IDIA volunteers to proceed with the sensitisation programme. The prejudiced approach of the school authorities and their unwillingness to change the conventional conception that they have about the legal profession was disappointing. It is an irony that people who are supposed to widen and modernise the outlook of the students narrow down their options to medicine and engineering. The experience that we had was both educating and disheartening. It would not be possible to resurrect the lost glory of the profession unless the older generation is ready to change their mindset. The realisation of the hurdles on the path ahead helped create a great sense of responsibility in us.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">The welcoming attitude of the authorities of Ossanam EMHSS shows the genuine interest that the authorities have about the future of the students. The school believes in educating students than making them mere literates. Thinking beyond the prescribed syllabus was taking the path less travelled by!<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KCACNYslDEI/TJKTo3fAaYI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/IHzAU2KWSfs/s1600/Image0326.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KCACNYslDEI/TJKTo3fAaYI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/IHzAU2KWSfs/s320/Image0326.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">The session started around 10 am. Each class had to be separately addressed owing to the constraint of time and space. The students were receptive and at the same time doubtful about the prospects of the profession. They heard about CLAT for the first time ever in those sessions. The idea of national law schools was also new to them. We made them realise the various options available to a law graduate besides litigation. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;">At the first instance they found it hard to digest. As the session advanced, they were successfully convinced of the different opportunities available to a law graduate like working with law firms, NGOs, other corporate firms, social organisations and other entrepreneurial possibilities. They were also informed of the advanced academic training and exposure available at the law schools. But as we proceeded with the fees structure many of the students openly expressed their disappointment at the unaffordable rates. It was to their relief that IDIA is providing financial aid to financially weak students.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KCACNYslDEI/TJKTzVYqQ9I/AAAAAAAAAKU/kjm_Wc8NM2E/s1600/Image0330.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KCACNYslDEI/TJKTzVYqQ9I/AAAAAAAAAKU/kjm_Wc8NM2E/s320/Image0330.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;">The interactive session followed. It was to our surprise that the students instantly came up with their queries without any hesitation. A good number of the questions were on CLAT and its preparation. They also wanted to know the syllabus followed in the law schools. Those students who took CLAT seriously came to us to know more of the life at law schools which included internships, moots etc.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;">At the beginning of the session of the 203 higher secondary students who attended, only 3 students were interested in the profession and around 10 students had some idea of the subject. However, after the interactive session 150 students showed real interest in law and attempted the aptitude test. We hope to see at least some of those faces in the national law schools.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;">Report prepared by Nimmy Tom and Telma Raju</div>Raghul Sudheeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852770423262702638noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-4764947958756289912010-08-31T14:24:00.000+05:302010-09-17T22:09:11.068+05:30IDIA Gets Its Logo [UPDATED]!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A big thank you is also due to all the law students, lawyers, law firmites, legal academicians and others who sent in their entries. The entries were diverse in content and style and the democratic short-listing of entries, done by the IDIA core team was a very difficult task indeed. Entries were received from as far as the US with some participants sending more than two entries. Thank you again for your commitment. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We will also be showcasing the other brilliant logo entries which narrowly missed out from winning this competition. Stay tuned.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">PS- We have also announced our first <a href="http://idially.blogspot.com/2010/08/idia-question-making-competition-legal.html">Legal Reasoning Question Making Competition.</a> The three best set of questions will win 3000/-, 2000/- and 1000/- respectively. This is what Prof. Shamnad Basheer's FB status had to say about this competition: "Are you good at legal reasoning? (or do you think the term itself is an oxymoron, since there is no reason in the law). Can you frame complicated questions that many would take years to answer? If so, this competition is just for you. Pit your legal brains and your creative juices against the very best"!</div>Tanuj Kaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266344763612394160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-10458142455786518932010-08-29T15:11:00.000+05:302010-09-03T17:14:19.770+05:30IDIA Question Making Competition (Legal Reasoning)- By Sahana Manjesh<br />
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<strong>What is IDIA?</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA), is a nationwide program that aims to draw in talented students from marginalized and under-represented parts of India to the best national law schools in the country. Thus, students are identified and trained to crack CLAT, the joint entrance exam organized by 11 law schools. The program is in its first year and we have already selected around 50 students for training.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong></strong> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong> What is the question making competition?</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh93MsRiDeAAZ0_IwVzejEkPmLzIhOMnGMwo-W5ztdqmVBWoh5JnDAPsrfXninMNa3ma2bYuHjzijXVH9vP_VmHWoOzN0K2DhtLYccCqqVFr24sWkz9B-wnPBnB-cwK3RFiltdGA2Gwhjo/s1600/10questions%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh93MsRiDeAAZ0_IwVzejEkPmLzIhOMnGMwo-W5ztdqmVBWoh5JnDAPsrfXninMNa3ma2bYuHjzijXVH9vP_VmHWoOzN0K2DhtLYccCqqVFr24sWkz9B-wnPBnB-cwK3RFiltdGA2Gwhjo/s200/10questions%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As part of the training given to IDIA students, we are looking for a bundle of outstanding questions in legal reasoning to prepare the students. Thus, this is a competition to select the best set of questions. You must submit 10 questions at the very minimum. The more creative and tougher the questions, the better!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What’s in this for you?</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lots of prize money to be won! The best set of questions get a prize of Rs. 3000, the second best Rs. 2000 and Rs. 1000 for the third place.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What kind of questions are we looking for?</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are looking to get from every participant (teams allowed) a set of ten questions (at the very minimum) in legal reasoning in any area of law that you like (a mixture of different laws is preferable). Remember that these are students who do not know anything about the law. We are testing for only aptitude for legal reasoning…and not for the knowledge of the law. So please do not assume any knowledge of the law…if you are using any legal concept or term, please explain its meaning in the problem itself. The student should be able to solve the problem by simply reading the legal principle or principles and then applying them to the fact situation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIBXtq9IUAKnYkThQ4FZ3EKTVb-D_bn3_jdE8jneCKcZ7f003J4sz-aId6oM5jwsM0L8u5YSRk0E9HVrZfoDcpTzWSzO-Ybuvp37sa1ekQDzjHXH6_EGmUoVMOrjsjIo-BTwpcW2-BOq0/s1600/legal+reasoning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIBXtq9IUAKnYkThQ4FZ3EKTVb-D_bn3_jdE8jneCKcZ7f003J4sz-aId6oM5jwsM0L8u5YSRk0E9HVrZfoDcpTzWSzO-Ybuvp37sa1ekQDzjHXH6_EGmUoVMOrjsjIo-BTwpcW2-BOq0/s320/legal+reasoning.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Legal aptitude is also the ability to sift through a morass of facts and to distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant. Therefore, ensure also that your problems have a bunch of relevant and irrelevant facts thrown in, the more the merrier; we’d like the students to be able to sift out necessary information. We’d also like to get some really tough questions, so turn up the difficulty level! You will find at the end of this document two sample questions for guidance as to language and level of toughness. Please feel free however to come with a format that suits you best; we’d like you to work around with the options so that we can have a truly tough set of questions. The questions should be in the form of MCQs. Please note that the all questions submitted are free for use by the IDIA team and/or their partners in any manner they deem fir for the purpose of furthering the goals of the IDIA project.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Where and how do we submit?</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please mail in your questions to sahanamanjesh@gmail.com. The questions must be sent in a word document along with details about the team. The entries must reach us before midnight of 20 September 2010. Questions must be accompanied with answers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Sample Questions</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Find below two sample questions for your guidance. You will notice that terms like “patent” have been explained in the question itself. The right option is the one in bold.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Sample Question 1</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Question:</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The law of country A stipulates that a patent shall not be granted for a method of medical treatment. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Explanations:</strong> (i) Treatment includes any act of diagnosis, therapy or surgery on the human body.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(ii) A patent is a legal monopoly granted to any inventor who discovers a new and useful technological invention. By virtue of this monopoly, the inventor has certain legal rights and can prevent others from manufacturing a product or using a process or method corresponding to that patent for a period of 20 years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A is admitted to hospital after meeting with a car accident. As A is being operated, some of A’s blood is taken away for routine testing purposes. It is then discovered that A’s blood contains a rare protein that could be useful in fighting cancer. However, the blood cannot be stored for a long time. One of the doctors comes up with a new method of storing the blood without any risk of the blood disintegrating. Can this method be patented?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. It cannot be patented, as it is not really new. Ways of storing things have been known to mankind for a long time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. It cannot be patented, as the method is not useful</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. It cannot be patented, since the method was discovered in the course of treating a human body.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4. It can be patented, since it is new and useful.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. It cannot be patented, since doctors are in social service and should not be awarded monopolies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. It cannot be patented, since the method exploits the condition of an “accident” victim.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Explanation of the answer: since the method of keeping the blood stable has nothing to with “treatment” on the human body, it is not a method of medical treatment. Therefore, if new and useful, it is patentable.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Sample Question 2</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(Please note that the reasoning given at the end of the answers is only for your guidance. You will only be required to send in questions with multiple choices.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Given below are some principles that govern wills. </strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Principle 1. When there are two inconsistent clauses in a will, the last one will prevail.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Principle 2. If the same quantity or amount of something has been bequeathed (willed) twice to the same person in the will, then it is deemed to have been bequeathed just once. If however there are unequal bequests made, then the legatee (person benefitting from the will) is entitled to both.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Principle 3. If anything that has been bequeathed to a person is not in existence at the time of the death of the testator (person making the will), then the bequest will not take effect.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sada Khush Raho lived a long and fruitful life. He had a wife, Patni, and two children- a daughter Putri and son Putra. While Putri was a responsible child always having pleased her family, Putra was a bit of an eccentric. In his lifetime, Sada Khush Raho had been a successful book store keeper, having built himself and his family a small fortune through sheer hard work. One day however, as he was arranging the newly arrived books in the shelves, he fell and broke his back, only to be bed ridden for the rest of his few remaining years. He then decided it was time to retire and so at the age of 78, having worked for the better part of his life, Sada Khush Raho put up his boots. When he turned 80, he had a premonition that he would not survive for long and hence decided to draw up a will to determine how his assets would devolve pursuant to his death. He passed away on 14.1.2010, a day shy of his 82nd birthday. The will that he had drafted is now to be executed. This is what his will looks like:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>I, Sada Khush Rao, do hereby will that my assets be devolved in the following manner:</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>• I leave to my daughter Putri Rs. 10, 00, 000.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>• I leave to my wife Patni Rs. 5, 00, 000.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>• To my son Putra, I leave behind my blue ambassador car.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>• Putri, my daughter, is to get Rs. 10, 00, 000.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>• The site in Mysore is to be bequeathed to my grandson Yuvaraja.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>• I leave to my wife Stridhani Rs. 10, 00, 000.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>• The site in Mysore is to be bequeathed to my granddaughter Yuvrani.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now apply the principles governing wills to answer the following questions:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. How much will Putri receive under the will?</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">a. Rs. 5, 00, 000</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>b. Rs. 10, 00, 000</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">c. Rs. 20, 00, 000</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">d. None of the above</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Reason:</strong> Since there are equal bequests made to Putri, she is entitled to only one.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2. How much does Patni get?</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">a. Rs. 10, 00, 000</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">b. Rs. 5, 00, 000</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>c. Rs.15, 00, 000</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">d. None of the above</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Reason: </strong>Since there are unequal bequests made to Patni, she is entitled to both.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3. On 14.1.2009, the family blue ambassador was sold for Rs. 1, 50, 000. What does Putra get on his father’s death under the will?</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>a. Nothing, the car has been sold and hence this part of the will not take effect.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">b. He will get Rs. 1, 50, 000 for that was what was recovered upon its sale.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">c. He should get the equivalent of the market price of the car from his father’s estate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">d. None of the above.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Reason:</strong> The car has been sold meaning it is not in existence any more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4. Who gets the site in Mysore?</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">a. Yuvaraja</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>b. Yuvarani</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">c. Both</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">d. Neither</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Reason:</strong> When inconsistent bequests are made, the last one will prevail.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><strong><u>This note has been prepared by Sahana Manjesh, a 3rd year student at NLSIU, Bangalore.</u></strong><br />
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Images from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tactics-Legal-Reasoning-Pierre-Schlag/dp/0890893098">here</a> and <a href="http://here./">here.</a>Tanuj Kaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266344763612394160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685563540095876663.post-31500506749212042802010-08-23T15:49:00.000+05:302010-08-23T15:49:02.632+05:30IDIA Sensitisation Session and Aptitude Test at Loreto Day School, Sealdah (West Bengal)<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The sensitization process at Loreto Day School, Sealdah stretched over a week. On the first day, 5 students of NUJS, Diptoshree, Radhika, Jhalak, Shruti and Suman visited the school to speak to the students about law as a career option and the benefits of studying at a national law school. Diptoshree began by posing some common quiz questions involving famous personalities. Then she asked them about the common link between all the answers: which was that they were all lawyers, who contributed to society in various ways.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">She then went ahead to explain the purpose of our visit and the evolution of law as a career in India. She elaborated on the setting up of national law schools and the purpose they serve. Further, all information about a 5 year law course at different national law schools and CLAT was given, with a brief mentioning of the broad areas that are tested. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radhika took example of Barack Obama to elucidate what lawyers can do for society and how some of them become very famous. Students seemed very enthusiastic about law after the session and the teacher later informed us that all those who attended the sensitization process also wanted to appear for the aptitude test which was to be conducted during the following week. They were especially astounded after hearing about the salaries that law school graduates receive.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">46 students appeared for aptitude test conducted at Loreto day school. They asked many questions pertaining to the test and about law as a career prospect. Some of their questions (pertaining to the student profile section of the question paper) were:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">• What external sources of parental income needs to be mentioned as monthly income on the test paper? Was it compulsory to mention it?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">• Why was parents’ fluency in English required?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">• What did ‘Legal profession’ mean?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The students were given one hour to complete the test. However, since they struggled to finish by an hour, they were given another 10 minutes extra time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">After that was the feedback session about the test. Majority said that the test was very confusing, though not particularly difficult. They found the test to be quite lengthy. Logical reasoning was confusing for most however, it was also the most interesting section according to them. Relations and directions were the easiest for many. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Parajumbles were difficult for almost all students. Legal reasoning also confused many of the students. The students had difficulty in applying the principles to the facts. All found the english comprehensions very easy to solve. Saurabh and Avisha solved two of the questions on ‘coding-decoding’ to demonstrate how to solve it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When asked if the information given to them regarding law as a prospective career convinced their parents, most said yes. Some said their parents were already quite supportive and encouraging about pursuing law as a career. Some however, had not spoken to their parents about pursuing law as yet. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">After the results were declared, most of the highest scorers turned out to be from the higher and middle income group and therefore, did not need any scholarship for studying law. The IDIA team decided to simply refer them to IMS, where they can receive training for CLAT after payment of requisite charges. 4 students from lower income group were selected for scholarship. Two of them belonged to SC category and one was from a minority community. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The IDIA team will be visiting the school again, for verification of the income level of selected students from salary statement of parents. They will engage in a counseling session with the parents to confirm their permission for their wards to study law.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Report prepared by Diptoshree.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>Tanuj Kaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266344763612394160noreply@blogger.com0