17,300 candidates register for law entrance exam

Over 17,000 candidates have registered to take the Common Law Admission Test 2010 (CLAT 2010) on May 9 for admission to leading law schools in the country.

The test is being conducted by the National Law Institute University, Bhopal (NLIU-B).

“This year, 17,300 candidates have registered to attempt CLAT 2010,” Prof DK Singh, officer in charge, CLAT, NLIU-B, said. The number is an increase of over 2,000 compared to CLAT 2009.
“We have started the process of dispatching hall tickets to the registered candidates.”

The organisers of CLAT 2010 have added one more city, Jaipur, to the list of venues for the test in India. “Jaipur will also host the CLAT 2010 in addition to 16 other cities,” Singh said. “There should be around 35 test centres for CLAT this year,” he said.
The law entrance test is jointly organised by 11 national law schools in the country. They take turn to organise the test, with the older schools getting to conduct it first.

The National Law School of India University, Bangalore, the oldest law school among the 11 institutes, had conducted the first CLAT in 2008; NALSAR University, Hyderabad, had organised CLAT 2009.

CLAT 2010 will be held from 3pm to 5pm on May 9 and the results will be out by May 29.

Last year, over 15,000 had registered to take the test, but only 12,270 students cleared it. The process for admission to the participating law schools will be completed by June 28 and classes are slated to commence on July 1.

The National Law Institute University, Bhopal, which is organising CLAT 2010, has set up helpline facilities for candidates.

Candidates can contact 0755-2696722/23 between 10 am and 5 pm or send an e-mail to helpdesk@clat.ac.in to have their queries answered.