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Kapil Sibal hopes law education will be under NCHER

The human resource development minister, however, said his ministry will continue to hold discussions with the law ministry and the Bar Council of India over the issue.

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Despite reservations of the Bar Council of India (BCI), human resource development minister Kapil Sibal today hoped that law education will come under the ambit of a proposed overarching body in higher education and ruled out differences with the law ministry over the issue.

Sibal, however, said his ministry will continue to hold discussions with the law ministry and the BCI over the issue.

"We are planning to set up a National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER). Hopefully, with the dialogue with the law minister and others we will include law in it (NCHER)," Sibal said addressing a BCI conference in New Delhi.

His comments assume significance in the wake of the BCI, an autonomous body that sets the standards of professional conduct and etiquette as also standards of legal education, saying it did not agree with the proposed bill which seeks to put legal education under the ambit of NCHER.

Sibal also ruled out differences between the human resources ministry and the law ministry over the inclusion of law education in NCHER.

"No difference...There is no question of difference. There has to be a dialogue. This has to be decided at the national level, it will be decided. Everybody will participate in the discussions," he told reporters later when queried whether there was any difference between the two ministries.

At the conference, Sibal said there is an "umbilical cord" between education and law and that the legal fraternity must come on board with the government to move forward in solving the problems of the nation through innovative ideas.

He also asserted that Government was not willing to control the profession of law.

"We do not want to control the profession nor we desire to nor we have the intention (to control it). What we want to do is to seek the collaboration of the legal fraternity in an attempt to solve the problems," he said.

The HRD minister, himself a reputed lawyer, said quality of education in the country should improve and that the legal professionals should help the country in creating intangible assets.

The proposed NCHER will replace the existing regulatory authorities like University Grants Commission, All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) and National Council of Teachers' Education (NCTE).

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