Union Minister for Power and Corporate Affairs Dr M. Veerappa Moily has stressed the need to create awareness on law and constitution among the illiterate people. He appealed to young advocates to strive to provide legal assistance to the deprived people in the country.
He was delivering the annual convocation address at the NALSAR University of Law here on Sunday. He said that the legal professionals must act as agents of social change. The young legal professionals should play a creative and crucial role in devising strategies that facilitate the development and the creation of a just and egalitarian society, he added. He appealed to young advocates to play pioneering roles in the establishment of laws and institutions that promote economic, social and political development.
Dr Moily has stressed the need to reform the second general legal education reforms. He said that the Central government would establish four national level institutions at the regional level as centers of excellence to focus on research and upgrading faculty skills. The second generation of reforms should focus on the three pillars of expansion, inclusion and excellence, he added. He said that there was a need to have curriculum reforms in the law schools. It was important that curricula in law schools across the country emphasize more on practical applications of the law rather than learning by rote. He said that the Law schools have to carry forward the social justice mission of legal education by developing new innovative curriculum with a focus on community needs and problems.
He said that keeping their minds open and learn about developments and changing trends in the nation, the knowledge and learning that the advocates would imbibe from here would help in the realization of their dreams and aspirations. He urged that the students must work selflessly for the country, strengthen its great traditions and values, particularly its pluralistic ethos.
Vice-chancellor Prof Faizan Mustafa said that the university has come up with new credit system compatible with leading foreign universities and aimed at facilitating easy credit transfer. To promote the integration of knowledge, the university has initiated the process of collaboration with other leading universities within the city of Hyderabad which will allow their students to take courses offered by the universities, he added.
Veerappa Moily has presented Gold Medals and Master, Bachelor and Diploma courses certificates to the students.
Chancellor and Acting Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh, the Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Supreme Court Judge Justice Madan B. Lokur, Retired Supreme Court Judge Justice SSM Quadri, founder Chancellor of NALSAR Justice U.C. Banerjee, and Founder Vice Chancellor Prof Ranbir Singh also attended the function. (NSS)