The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

25“In the field of legal education, there was, thus, a dilemma of dualresponsibility of the BCI and UGC. The CDC in the eighties wereaware of this difficulty and suggested certain ways and means tosolve the problems arising from the dual responsibility and called formore interaction, in the form of information sharing andconsultation, between UGC and BCI. It is significant that BCI hadan open mind when they set out in 1995 for a reform. Theyconsulted the universities and the UGC law panel while formulatingthe reforms for LL.B. courses.”The Report, however, says (page 2):“Although this cannot be described as closer interaction, the gaps incommon endeavors between BCI and UGC for reforms in legaleducation were being filled. It is significant that besides asking tofollow CDC Report in the preparation of Syllabi, BCI resolved toaccept some of the courses recommended by CDC. Environmentallaw, human rights law and consumer protection laws were madecompulsory subjects. Law and poverty, comparative law, insurancelaw, law and medicine, women and the law and intellectual propertywere made optional papers. Administrative law and labour law werepromoted to the status of compulsory courses.”The CDC Report of 2001 of UGC thus accepts that there has been someconsultation but it says that ‘closer interaction’ is necessary between theBCI and UGC.