HC pulls up Jharkhand govt for not providing regular funds to NUSRL

The Jharkhand High Court criticized the state government on Friday, February 29, 2020, because it did not provide regular funding to the Ranchi-based National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) observing that the “government should shut down the varsity if it doesn’t want to run it.”

Chief justice Ravi Ranjan and justice Sujit Narayan Prasad said the government’s indifference to the premier institution was difficult to understand.

It called the chief secretary and finance and building construction departments’ secretaries and asked them to personally attend the next hearing on March 6 to explain the government’s inaction.

The High Court judge heard the Public Interest Litigation (PIL), and under the NUSRL Act, the state governments, bar associations, bar council, etc. should provide financial assistance to universities.