Even after six rounds of admissions, a large number of vacancies across several law colleges in the state of Maharashtra led to the law aspirants requesting for another round of admission. Their eager requests forwarded by the Common Entrance Test (CET) cell to the state government were not paid attention to. Thus a meeting between the CET cells had to conclude to terminate the admission process since there was no positive reply from the state government.
Chandrashekhar Oak, Commissioner of the CET cell, states that many other universities have already issued the schedule of first semester LLB examinations, and thus extending the admission process would only render them incapable of completing the mandatory 90-day term. He also added that such a move would flout the norms set by Bar Council of India.
According to data provided by CET cell, major portion of the vacant seats are from colleges located in the rural areas, while most of the seats in the city colleges are filled. To be precise, there are about 5000 vacant seats out of the total 15000 seats entitled for the three year LLB course; and also in the5-year LLB course there are over 6000 seats vacant across all law colleges.
A first year student from Government Law College, Churchgate, Agastya Samat, believes that if the state had allowed an additional round of admission, it would have helped both the students as well as the colleges; that is, an entire academic year of students could have been safeguarded and also the colleges would have benefited from the fees of the many seats which are now lying vacant.