The Society for the Study of Law (SSL) is willing to hand over Khadar Daloi Law College, which it runs, for the creation of a National Law University in Jowai.
In a memo to Law Minister James PK Sangma, the society said that a decision to hand over the college to the state government for this purpose was made at the general body meeting in June.
The college is affiliated to North-Eastern Hill University and the Bar Council of India (BCI). However, in July, it had requested that the state government help it after it received an invoice for Rs 35 lakh from the BCI to renew its affiliation.
The state government is looking to establish a branch of the national law college in Meghalaya. The SSL appreciated the move of the government in this regard and appealed for it to be created somewhere in Jaiñtia Hills.
In 50 years of statehood, Jaiñtia Hills has not seen any national-level institutions, with the “much-talked about” NEHU campus at Moodymmai not materialising and the engineering college in Shangpung has yet to come up also.
The government has already proposed Garo Hills for a fishery college besides having already set up a campus of NEHU in Tura. Shillong will get a medical college and Ri-Bhoi veterinary and dairy colleges.
