Conduct Fair NLAT 2020(National Law aptitude Test) with equal opportunity to all. Firstly the exam is against basic ethos of Law that is equal opportunity to all. This exam required students to have laptop or android phone with good internet connection at home. If NLS cannot help uplift them, least it can do is rub this arrogant attitude in the face of an economically disadvantaged student. Well it is clear that NLUs are not into lower economic strata of students by the kind of paper they have devised and no reservation of EWS at most of the universities. But the NLAT that was, is clearly an announcement from rooftops that we will do it our way even if it is on the death bed of legal principles of justice, equity and good conscious.Secondly, a fair exam is the least a student should expect of a government university boosting of esteem reputation of international level equating with revolutionizing the legal education in the country. It is like the basic right of student to have a fair and equal opportunity in a competitive examination. NLSIU authorities should stop treating the university as their family business and understand that the right to get into university with a fair exam providing equal opportunity to all falls within the fundamental right of these students. This exam was decided to be conducted with such haste that the logic fails to explain the urgency especially keeping in mind the kind of trauma the students had already faced this year with continuous changes and postponement in such critical times of Covid. Thirdly, NLAT was marred with extreme technical glitches and it’s all evident by now that the whole online system used by NLAT authorities was hacked. Umpteen videos are there online to show how unfair and erringly the paper was conducted. There were instances of students making groups and solving the paper, screen sharing and paper being solved by multiple experts, Google searches while the paper was going, people to help students outside camera view and the nail in the coffin was the leak of retest paper, which was mailed to NLS while the paper was on. Still the NLSIU authorities don’t want to accept how dead the NLAT paper was on the benchmark of integrity, fairness and equity.
Lastly, it is beyond demoralising and disheartening for the student community to know that the university they dream as the ideal institution of law education is failing so miserably in accepting the gross injustice done by NLAT.
