The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

79Inspections:8.4 As per section 7(1)(i) of the Act, the Bar Council of India may visitand inspect those universities whose degree in law may be recognized forthe purpose of enrolment of law graduates as lawyers. Bar Council of Indiamay also direct the State Bar Councils to visit and inspect universities. Asper section 6(1)(gg), the State Bar Councils may also visit and inspectuniversities in accordance with the directions of the Bar Council of India.Further, rule 8 of Section A of Part IV of the Bar Council of India Rulesrefers to ‘Inspection’. Recently, new formats have been prepared forinspection, responses, Reports and for further responses to the Report.Procedure for recommending disaffiliation for the University on the basisof the Reports, is also indicated.8.5 No doubt, inspections are necessary. Quite a good number ofinspections have yielded good results and in fact, some of the collegeswhich were bad have been weeded out after inspection. But still, theinspection process has to be revamped. On the other hand, some collegescomplain that though they have complied with all the requirements neededfor affiliation still, they are not granted permanent affiliation but are givenaffiliation only for one year and that there are inspections every year and insome cases, more than once in an year, and each time the managements areasked to deposit a minimum of Rs.50,000/- as inspection fee to enable theCommittee Members to inspect. There are also complaints that theexpenditure for the inspection team is becoming very expensive,