Tamil Nadu government to prohibit private law colleges Wednesday July 30,2014

Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday July 30,2014 introduced a bill in the Assembly seeking to prohibit establishment of law colleges by private persons in the state.

The bill introduced by Law Minister S.P. Velumani said the past experience had revealed that private trusts/societies were not able to provide legal education at affordable cost to the economically and socially weaker sections and were not able to continue to run the law colleges successfully.

He said the government had taken a policy decision to establish adequate number of law colleges in the state in a phased manner. “The government, therefore, decided to prohibit establishment of law colleges by the private persons in the state by undertaking the legislation,” he said.