Appeal for setting up National Law School in Khadar Daloi Law College, Jowai

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaJuly 8, 2022

In order to facilitate the setting up of the National Law School in Jaintia Hills Region, the Society for the Study of Law, Jowai expressed their willingness to handover the Khadar Daloi Law College run by them to the Meghalaya Govt for the noble purpose.

In a memorandum to the Meghalaya Law Minister, the Society said the Khadar Daloi Law College is affiliated to North Eastern Hills University and also with the Bar Council of India and the College is housed in its own campus near the District Jail Complex, Jowai.

The Society for the Study of Law took the decision of demanding the National Law School in Jaintia Hills region and also to handover their college to the Government in its general body meeting held on June 21 last.

The decision was on the backdrop of the Meghalaya Law Minister, Government of Meghalaya James P.K. Sangma announcement that the Govt is in the process of establishing the National Law College in the State during the inauguration of the District Court in Khliehriat, East Jaintia Hills.

The memorandum deeply appreciated the Meghalaya Government decision to establish a National Law School in the state. with the separation of Judiciary and Executive taking place in many of the Districts in the state, the Society pointed the decision of the Government in regard to the establishment of a National Law School is very relevant.

The separation by itself has to a great extent raised the status of Legal awareness amongst the people of the state and the youth in particular.

This is evident from the fact that in recent years a large number of our youth have aspired to and taken up the legal profession.

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They appealed to the Government to establish the said National Law School in Jaintia Hills Region, at any location in either of the two districts as deemed feasible by the authorities.

The Society apprised that during the last few decades a number of students from Jaintia Hills have been pursuing higher studies outside the state in a number of different fields like Medical, Engineering, information Technology Management studies and others.

Some of these students fared much better in the fields they were in. However, with the lack of Institutions providing legal studies of the standard of the proposed National Law School, there is also lack of Vision, Awareness and Motivation to the students to pursue higher studies in the field of law, as they do in other fields.

No doubt we have seen development in the Education Sector in Jaintia Hills during the last 50 years of statehood, if judged from the increasing number of educational institutions that have come up in the two districts which provide general education to the students.

But, it is the saddest state of affairs to point out that even after 50 years not a single state level or National level institution has come up in Jaintia Hills Region, as has been the case in other Regions of the state viz Khasi Hills Region and Garo Hills Region.

The much talked NEHU Campus in Jaintia Hills at Moodymmai village did not materialized till date. While the information of setting up Engineering College in Shangpung area never see the light of the days.

Justifying their demands for setting the National Law School in Jaintia Hills region, the memorandum informed that the Govt proposed to set up Fishery College in Garo Hills, the already established NEHU Campus in Tura besides others coming up institution and the proposed setting up of Medical College in Shillong and Tura and the proposed Veterinary College and the Dairy college in Ri Bhoi District.