19 Jan 2012|Noida | Amity University Campus, Sector-125 Noida
Mental attitude of Voters and Law need to be changed for choosing right candidate, avers Hon’ble Mr. M.C Bhandare- Governor of Odisha while addressing the budding lawyers during Amity Competition on Law Reforms
To provide budding lawyers an experience of clinical legal education which prepares them to creative and analytical capacity to face actual courtroom, Amity Law School, Noida started its three day “Amity Competition on Law Reforms” from November 18 to 20 at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Sector- 125, Noida.
Welcoming the august gathering, Maj. Gen. Nilendra Kumar, Director, Amity Law School, Noida said that Law reforms are the talk of the day and it is much needed in Indian context. Most of the laws are century old and need to be revised. Maj Gen.Kumar shared that the competition on law reforms will inculcate in students an expertise to frame laws and also to undertake suitble drafting capabilities. Their knowledge of laws and constitution will be tested by bench of three or more judges invited to assess them.
Addressing the august gathering, Dr. Balwinder Shukla, Officiating Vice Chancellor, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh remarked that this competition will serve as a test of legal proficiency and will provide enlightening thoughts on legal reforms to the participants.
Inaugurating the Competition on Law Reforms, Hon’ble Mr. M.C. Bhandare, Governor of Odisha while sharing his views on the importance of Law Reforms said that every party should have atleast 50% women in power. Hon’ble Mr. Bhandare said that till last century men were considered superior because of physical power but in present times brain power is more important and nature has given the equal brain power to both men and women. There fore women should be given equal opportunity and considered more superior. Speaking to the budding lawyers, Hon’ble Mr. Bhandare said that law being a noble and learned profession, students should adopt integrity, independence and industry as the main factors to be successful and four Cs i.e. Corruption, Communalism, Cste, Criminalization should be eradicated in order to have stability of the party and a stble government Refering to the upcoming Uttar Praddesh Polls, he advised the voters to be sensible while voting and vote for those parties who have proved themselves stble. Laying on the needs of the value based education, he emphasized on love, compassion and patriotism to be part of education.
Mr. P.P. Rao, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court while addressing the budding lawyers as to how they can become good lawyers said that it is the law that brings the social order and advised students to compete with a sportsmanship spirit and find out new ideas as to how electoral reforms can be implemented in this country. Talking on the recent election to be held in UP, he is of the opinion that candidate who gets 50% plus 1 vote should be announced a winner rather than ones who win with 15-20% vote only.
Twelve prestigious law institutes from different parts of India like ILS, Pune, NALSAR, Hyderabad, Symbiosis, Pune, RMLNLU, Lucknow, Sastra University, Tamil Nadu, ITM, Gurgaon, IMS Noida, Mewar Ghaziabad, Amity Law Schools – Noida, Delhi, Lucknow are participating in the Amity Competition on Law Reforms.