The year 2022 will witness two Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) in one single year.
The Annual Executive Committee and theGeneral Body Meetings of the Consortium of National Law Universities were held at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad under the Chairmanship of Prof.
Faizan Mustafa on Monday.
In the meeting the decision regarding holding CLAT was taken.
According to the decision, Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) -22 for the admissions to various national law univesities for the year 2022 will be held on May 8, 2022.
The Consortium has also resolved that CLAT-2023 will be held on December 18, 2022. Hence, in 2022 two CLAT examinations will be held in one year.
The Consortium has also elected a new Executive Committee with Prof. Poonam Saxena, Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Jodhpur taking over as President from the Outgoing President Prof. Faizan Mustafa. Prof.Vijender Kumar,Vice-Chancellor, Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur was elected as the Vice-President and Prof. V.C.
Vivekanandan, Vice- Chancellor, Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur was elected as CLAT Convenor, 2022.
The Consortium further resolved to reduce the counselling fee from 50,000/- to Rs.30,000/- for the General category candidates and Rs.20,000/- for ST/SC/OBC/BC/EWS/PWD and other reserva-tion candidates.
In order to fully protect the privacy of candidates, the Consortium resolved to secure the consent of candidates prior to sharing any personal information with any University or any other third party,
informs the letter duly signed by Prof. (Dr) Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Secretary – Treasurer, Consortium of National Law Universities.
