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NLSP takes 30 students yearly into residential CLAT coaching
The Indian Express··14 Sept
The National Law Scholars Programme reaches about 10,000 Navodaya students yearly and selects 30 for a two-year residential course in Hyderabad. Of 150 scholars picked in seven years, 120 finished the programme and entered law school, with 84 still studying law. Founder Anoop Maurya said CLAT's long English passages pose a barrier for rural students the scheme targets.
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What It Means For You
- Rural Navodaya students can apply when NLSP holds tests across 600 plus Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools.
- Selected scholars receive coaching and financial help with law school fees that can run to several lakh rupees yearly.
- CLAT registrations are underway, so eligible students must prepare for written exams and interviews under the programme rules.
What's Happening
- Anshita Rani, 23, is in her final year at National Law University Jodhpur after joining through NLSP in 2022.
- The initiative began in 2019 as a collaboration between Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti and alumnus Anoop Maurya.
- Maurya argues CLAT has become an anti-poor exam because of lengthy English passages in the paper.
How NLSP selects scholars
- Navodaya schools were set up to bring talented rural children into residential education.
- Common Law Admission Test is the gateway to India's National Law Universities.
- NLSP's Hyderabad campus combines day schooling at a local JNV with evening coaching classes.
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