How LLB Education Is Being Systematically Diluted in India
Legal education in India is facing a silent but dangerous collapse. Across the country, a large number of private law colleges are running LLB programmes without ensuring regular classroom attendance, reducing legal education to a mere paper qualification. This is not an administrative lapse—it is a systemic failure that threatens the integrity of the legal profession.
The Bar Council of India (BCI) clearly mandates that only candidates who complete a regular 3-year or 5-year LLB programme are eligible for enrolment as advocates. Regular education is the backbone of professional training. Yet, in practice, thousands of students are allowed to enroll, appear in examinations, and obtain law degrees without ever attending classes. Attendance registers are manipulated, inspections are predictable, and compliance exists only on paper.
If the Bar Council of India were to introduce compulsory biometric attendance across all law colleges, the truth would be unavoidable. Nearly 80–90% of students in many private institutions would instantly fail to meet eligibility requirements. This alone reveals how deeply compromised the system has become.
This crisis is not about employment or convenience; it is about justice itself. Advocates are entrusted with constitutional values, human rights, and the liberty of citizens. When untrained and uneducated individuals enter the profession, courts suffer, litigants suffer, and democracy suffers.
It is time for the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and the Bar Council of India to intervene decisively. Cosmetic guidelines are no longer enough. What is required is real-time biometric attendance, surprise inspections, cancellation of non-compliant colleges, and strict denial of enrolment to ineligible graduates.
Legal education must not function as a commercial shortcut. It must be restored as a discipline of learning, ethics, and responsibility. The future of the Indian judiciary depends on the quality of those who stand before it—and silence on this issue is no longer an option.