Rajasthan

• 17 Nov 2022

Foundation Stone of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University

Why In News?

On November 16, 2022, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot laid the foundation stone of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University campus at Dahmikalan, Bagru, Jaipur district of Rajasthan. This university will be built at a cost of Rs 387 crore.

Key Points

• Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that the purpose of establishing this university is to provide quality education to the students of all law colleges. With the formation of a permanent campus of the university, teachers and students will get a better environment and the students of the colleges affiliated to this university will provide better services to the society by going to the legal and legal fields and will lead in providing justice to the victim.
• The Chief Minister said that only if strong law and order is established in the state, the victim will get justice with respect. In this sequence, reception rooms have been set up in all the police stations of the state and FIRs have been made mandatory. Now the complainants are going to the police station with respect and registering their complaint.
• It is noteworthy that Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Law University campus will be constructed in Dahmikalan of Bagru in a total area of 26 acres. A total of Rs 119.21 crore was approved in February 2022 for the works of the first phase.
• In the first phase, administrative buildings, two academic blocks, guest houses, girls' hostels, boys' hostels, dining halls, faculty and non-teaching blocks, health care and other facilities are being developed in this campus.
• Minister of State for Higher Education Rajendra Singh Yadav said that there are 23 National Law Universities and more than 1650 law colleges in the field of law education. After Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in the country, such a university was established in Rajasthan with which all the law colleges of the state are connected.
• University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Dev Swarup said that as per the intention of the Chief Minister, 84 law colleges of the state have been affiliated to this university and more than 28 thousand students have been registered and this is an important step in the field of higher education.