This story is from February 19, 2007

Law varsity will begin from next year: Prakash

The first ever law university in Karnataka will start functioning from the next academic year, home minister M P Prakash announced on Sunday.
Law varsity will begin from next year: Prakash
HUBLI: The first ever law university in Karnataka will start functioning from the next academic year, home minister M P Prakash announced here on Sunday.
He told reporters that all hurdles pertaining to land acquisition have been cleared with a "compromise formula"between the stakeholders of law university and IT companies.
Prakash said the Karnataka Law University Bill, 2007, has already approved by the cabinet and it will now be placed before the both the Houses for discussion before obtaining the assent from the governor.
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"We are optimistic that we will get the nod of both the houses and the governor soon and we the law university will be operational from the coming academic year 2007-08,"he asserted.
Lauding the efforts of opposition leader H K Patil, Prakash said the establishment of a separate law university in Karnataka is one of the main objectives of the policy and action plan prepared by the department of law, justice and human rights.
This was proposed by H K Patil when he was the law minister on the basis of recommendations of Dr D M Nanjundappa Committee report on regional imbalance.
Prof J S Patil of Gulbarga University has been appointed as special officer to establish law university.
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