Port Blair, March 16: The Member of Parliament, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma has requested the Hon’ble Minister of Education, Govt. of India, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal to grant reservation to the law graduates of Andaman & Nicobar Islands in the National Law Universities of India for pursuing LLM Courses. Sharma mentioned that since the first batch of Andaman Law College students will become graduates in the current academic year 2021, many of them will aspire to pursue LLM. The Andaman Law College imparts only B.A., LL.B. degree course and the passing out Law Graduates of the Islands will have to qualify as candidates belonging to General Category under Central Government All India Quota in the All India centralized examination namely ‘Common-Law Admission Test for Post Graduate.

Securing seat for LLM Courses in colleges at Mainland particularly in the National Law Universities is a tough proposition for the Islands’ Law Graduates considering the fact that Andaman Law college which started functioning since 01.10.2016 is in its nascent stage of development.

Sharma in his letter to the Minister also mentioned that the National Law Universities (NLUs) have granted reservation of seats for the students belonging to various categories for pursuing LLM courses who are socially, economically, physically and educationally deprived / backward.